Thermal Fluctuations in Nuclear Pasta
| Autor: | A. S. Schneider, C. R. Forsman, M. E. Caplan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Physics Equation of state Condensed matter physics Nuclear Theory 010308 nuclear & particles physics FOS: Physical sciences Thermal fluctuations Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter Curvature Nuclear matter 01 natural sciences Power law Nuclear pasta Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) Nonlinear Sciences::Chaotic Dynamics Thermal conductivity Thermoelastic damping 0103 physical sciences Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) 010306 general physics Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Nonlinear Sciences::Pattern Formation and Solitons |
| Popis: | Despite their astrophysical relevance, nuclear pasta phases are relatively unstudied at high temperatures. We present molecular dynamics simulations of symmetric nuclear matter with several topologies of `lasagna' at a range of temperatures to study the pasta-uniform transition. Using the Minkowski functionals we quantify trends in the occupied volume, surface area, mean breadth, and Euler characteristic. The amplitude of surface displacements of the pasta increase with temperature which produce short lived topological defects such as holes and filaments near melting, resulting in power laws for increasing surface curvature with temperature. We calculate the static structure factor and report the shear viscosity and thermal conductivity of pasta, finding that the shear viscosity is minimized at the melting temperature. These results may have implications for the thermoelastic properties of nuclear pasta and finite temperature corrections to the equation of state at pasta densities. 13 pages, 8 figures, PRC accepted |
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