The Impact of Magnetic Screening on Neutron Star Crusts

Strong magnetic fields in the outer crust of neutron stars can screen the interactions between ions. This may change the structure of the crystal and lead to anisotropic energy transport which can be important for the modeling of observations. We take the results of Sharma \& Reddy (2010) and apply their screened potential using Molecular Dynamics simulations and study the structure of the crystal and also transport properties.