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Tasting nuclear pasta made with classical molecular dynamics simulations

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Nuclear clusters or voids in the inner crust of neutron stars were predicted to have various shapes collectively nicknamed nuclear pasta. The recent review in Ref. [1] by López, Dorso and Frank summarized their systematic investigations into properties especially the morphological and thermodynamical phase transitions of the nuclear pasta within a Classical Molecular Dynamics model, providing further stimuli to find more observational evidences of the predicted nuclear pasta in neutron stars.

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B. A. Li is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Award Number DE-SC0013702 and the CUSTIPEN (China-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei) under the US Department of Energy Grant No. DE-SC0009971.

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Li, BA. Tasting nuclear pasta made with classical molecular dynamics simulations. Front. Phys. 16, 24302 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-020-1043-8

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