Expulsion of Magnetic Flux Lines from the Growing Superconducting Core of a Magnetized Quark Star

Abstract

The expulsion of magnetic flux lines from a growing superconducting core of a quark star has been investigated. The idea of impurity diffusion in molten alloys and an identical mechanism of baryon number transport from hot quark-gluon-plasma phase to hadronic phase during quark-hadron phase transition in the early universe, micro-second after big bang has been used. The possibility of Mullins-Sekerka normal-superconducting interface instability has also been studied.

Comments: Thoroughly revised version. Accepted for Astrophysics & Space Science