Phase transition to the state with nonzero average helicity in dense neutron matter
arXiv:1011.0959 · doi:10.1134/S002136401024001X
Abstract
The possibility of the appearance of the states with a nonzero average helicity in neutron matter is studied in the model with the Skyrme effective interaction. By providing the analysis of the self-consistent equations at zero temperature, it is shown that neutron matter with the Skyrme BSk18 effective force undergoes at high densities a phase transition to the state in which the degeneracy with respect to helicity of neutrons is spontaneously removed.
4 pages, 3 figures; v2: journal version