Towards a metallurgy of neutron star crusts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Kobyakov, D ^a,b,c   Pethick, C ^c,d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; ELECTRON GAS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; NEUTRONS;

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; BODY CENTERED CUBIC LATTICES; DISPLACIVE FERROELECTRICS; EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURES; NEUTRON STARS; NUCLEAR MATTERS; UNIFORM ELECTRON GAS;

STARS;

EID: 84897455845     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.112504     Document Type: Article

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