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For treatment of the layers below the crust of a neutron star it is useful to employ a relativistic model involving three independently moving constituents, representing superfluid neutrons, superfluid protons, and degenerate negatively charged leptons. A Kalb-Ramond type formulation is used here to develop such a model for the specific purpose of application at the semi macroscopic level characterised by lengthscales that are long compared with the separation between the highly localised and densely packed proton vortices of the Abrikosov type lattice that carries the main part of the magnetic flux, but that are short compared with the separation between the neutron vortices.
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Carter, B. (2002). Superconducting Superfluids in Neutron Stars. In: Huebener, R.P., Schopohl, N., Volovik, G.E. (eds) Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors and Superfluids. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04665-4_6
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