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Phys. Rev. Lett. 21, 110 - 113 (1968)

Properties of High-Density Matter in Intense Magnetic Fields

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Hong-Yee Chiu * and Vittorio Canuto †
Institute for Space Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York, New York

Received 3 May 1968

We summarize recent results on the properties of matter in intense magnetic fields which are believed to exist in gravitationally collapsed bodies. The equations of state of a Fermi gas in magnetic fields are presented; they are superpositions of quantities relevant to a one-dimensional gas if the density is low enough or the field strong enough. For laboratory matter, the transition field is approximately 109 G.


©1968 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v21/p110
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.21.110

* Also at Department of Physics and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, N. Y.
† On leave of absence from Department of Physics, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Polytécnico Nacional, Ap. Post 14740, Mexico 14, D. F., Mexico.

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