ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AT THE CORE OF A MAGNETAR

SUTAPA GHOSH, KANUPRIYA GOSWAMI, SOMENATH CHAKRABARTY, ASHOK GOYAL, SANCHAYITA GHOSH
2002 International Journal of Modern Physics D  
An expression for the electrical conductivity at the core of a magnetar is derived using Boltzmann kinetic equation with the relaxation time approximation. The rates for the relevant scattering processes, e.g., electron-electron and electron-proton are evaluated in presence of strong quantizing magnetic fields using tree level diagrams. It is found that in presence of a strong quantizing magnetic field, electrical conductivity behaves like a second rank tensor. However, if the zeroth Landau
more » ... ls are only occupied by the charged particles, it again behaves like a scaler of a one dimensional system.
doi:10.1142/s0218271802002098 fatcat:5sv3hajh2bdbncbx57fgiu4ok4