Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism

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dc.contributor.advisorMurugan, Jeffreyen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMisra, Anujen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-04T18:04:52Z
dc.date.available2015-12-04T18:04:52Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis work aims to review the progress in understanding the underlining physics of pulsar glitches: beginning from the pedagogical development of the subject to eventually motivating the use of AdS/CFT techniques in studying a certain class of condensed matter systems. The foundation of this work is built upon the Gross Pitaevskii (GP) model of super-fluidity applied to the interior matter of neutron stars, where the condensate wave function acts as the order parameter of the macroscopic coherence theory. The excitation modes of the field equations are found to be solitonic vortices, which then go on to present a theoretical basis to the plausible theories of pulsar glitches involving vortex dynamics. The second major thrust of this thesis is in reviewing the application of AdS/CFT in study of strongly-coupled condensed matter systems, with special attention to the models of holographic superfluidity that admit vortex-like solutions. The basic identification of the characteristic free energy configuration of global vortices in the AdS/CFT prescription enables to motivate its use in studying the pulsar glitch mechanism. The last part of this work traces the conclusions of this review and attempts to present the current state-of-progress of the field with its extensive domain of purview and open lines of inquiry.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMisra, A. (2015). <i>Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15589en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMisra, Anuj. <i>"Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15589en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMisra, A. 2015. Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Misra, Anuj AB - This work aims to review the progress in understanding the underlining physics of pulsar glitches: beginning from the pedagogical development of the subject to eventually motivating the use of AdS/CFT techniques in studying a certain class of condensed matter systems. The foundation of this work is built upon the Gross Pitaevskii (GP) model of super-fluidity applied to the interior matter of neutron stars, where the condensate wave function acts as the order parameter of the macroscopic coherence theory. The excitation modes of the field equations are found to be solitonic vortices, which then go on to present a theoretical basis to the plausible theories of pulsar glitches involving vortex dynamics. The second major thrust of this thesis is in reviewing the application of AdS/CFT in study of strongly-coupled condensed matter systems, with special attention to the models of holographic superfluidity that admit vortex-like solutions. The basic identification of the characteristic free energy configuration of global vortices in the AdS/CFT prescription enables to motivate its use in studying the pulsar glitch mechanism. The last part of this work traces the conclusions of this review and attempts to present the current state-of-progress of the field with its extensive domain of purview and open lines of inquiry. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism TI - Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15589 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMisra A. Towards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanism. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15589en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Mathematics and Applied Mathematicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherAstrophysics and Space Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleTowards a holographic description of pulsar glitch mechanismen_ZA
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