Glitches: the exact quantum signatures of pulsars metamorphosis

TL;DR

This paper proposes that pulsar glitches are quantum signatures of their transformation into dark super-baryons, involving quantum energy levels and vortex expulsion, which could explain the evolution of pulsars over billions of years.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum model linking pulsar glitches to metamorphosis into dark super-baryons with specific energy levels and vortex dynamics, a new perspective on pulsar evolution.

Findings

Pulsar glitches correspond to quantum spin-down events of super-baryons.

A pulsar like Vela may experience billions of glitches before complete metamorphosis.

Predicted SB masses and glitch ratios vary with pulsar age.

Abstract

The observed recurrence of glitches in pulsars and neutron stars carry rich information about the evolution of their internal structures. In this article I show that the glitch-events observed in pulsars are exact quantum signatures for their metamorphosis into dark super-baryons (SBs), whose interiors are made of purely incompressible superconducting gluon-quark superfluids. Here the quantum nuclear shell model is adopted to describe the permitted energy levels of the SB, which are assumed to be identical to the discrete spinning rates $\Omega_{SB},$ that SBs are allowed to rotate with. Accordingly, a glitch-event corresponds to a prompt spin-down of the superconducting SB from one energy level to the next, thereby expelling a certain number of vortices, which in turn spins-up the ambient medium. The process is provoked mainly by the negative torque of the ambient dissipative nuclear fluid and by a universal scalar field $\phi$ at the background of a supranuclear dense matter. As dictated by the Onsager-Feynman equation, the prompt spin-down must be associated with increase of the dimensions of the embryonic SB to finally convert the entire pulsar into SB-Objects on the scale of Gyrs. Based on our calculations, a Vela-like pulsar should display billions of glitches during its lifetime, before it metamorphoses entirely into a maximally compact SB-object and disappears from our observational windows. The present model predicts the mass of SBs and $\Delta \Omega/\Omega$ in young pulsars to be relatively lower than their older counterparts.