Thermal conductivity and impurity scattering in the accreting neutron star crust
Thermal conductivity and impurity scattering in the accreting neutron star crust
We calculate the thermal conductivity of electrons for the strongly correlated multicomponent ion plasma expected in the outer layers of a neutron star's crust, employing a Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach. This allows us to isolate the low energy response of the ions and use it to calculate the …