Meissner effect and vortex expulsion in color-superconducting quark stars, and its role for reheating of magnetars

Compact stars made of quark matter, rather than confined hadronic matter, are expected to form a color superconductor. This superconductor ought to be threaded with rotational-vortex lines, within which the star's interior magnetic field is at least partially confined. The vortices (and thus magneti... View More