The superfluid phase transition in neutron star matter

1 June 1979

journal article
Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics

Vol. 12 (6) , L147-L149
https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/12/6/004

Abstract

The Ginzburg-Landau free energy describing p wave paired neutron star matter is used to derive renormalisation group equations. The absence of infrared stable fixed points indicates a first order phase transition.

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