Crust glass formation reveals the neutron star birth properties in IGR J17480-2446

arXiv:2606.22227 · astro-ph.HE, cond-mat.mtrl-sci, physics.plasm-ph · Submitted 2026-06-20 · Read on arXiv

D. A. Baiko, A. I. Chugunov

astro-ph.HE, cond-mat.mtrl-sci, physics.plasm-ph

Submitted: 2026-06-20

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. Letters

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ab Initio — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Monte Carlo framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• See End Matter — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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