Superfluidity and Superconductivity in Neutron Stars

Understand

This review focuses on applications of the ideas of superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron stars in a broader context, ranging from the microphysics of pairing in nucleonic superfluids to macroscopic manifestations of superfluidity in pulsars.

• The exposition of the basics of pairing, vorticity and mutual friction can serve as an introduction to the subject.
• We also review some topics of recent interest, including the various types of pinning of vortices, glitches, and oscillations in neutron stars containing superfluid phases of baryonic matter.