2010/10/04 by Arnaud Dupays, Dupays, Arnaud, C. Rizzo +4
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #Superconducting Materials and Applications #astro-ph.SR #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1010.0597
arxiv created 2010/10/04 · openalex publication_date 2010/10/04 · arxiv updated 2010/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this letter we show that Quantum Vacuum Friction (QVF) should play an important role in neutron star evolution. Taking into account this effect we show that magnetars could be understood as a natural evolution of standard pulsars. For the Crab pulsar, of which the characteristic age is known, we present the first completely coherent time evolution for its period and braking index. For this pulsar we also give the predicted value of the current first derivative of the braking index, providing a very important test to confirm QVF.