What is a degenerate matter?
Degenerated matter is a bizarre form of exotic matter created in the cores of massive stars, where atoms or even subatomical particles are so narrowly packed that the primary pressure source is no longer thermal but quantum - dictated by restrictions on the principle of Pauli exclusion. Under certain circumstances, it is also useful to treat conductive electrons in metals as a degenerated mass due to their high density. The degenerate mass, specifically metal hydrogen, was created in the laboratory earlier, using pressures of over a million atmosphere (> 100 GPA).
The degenerate matter is unique in that its pressure is only partially dictated by temperature and the pressure would actually remain even if the temperature was at absolute zero. This is quite different from the ideal gases that we will learn about in the classics class, where the temperature and pressure/volume are closely related.
In the order of common forms of degenerated matter belongs to metal hydrogen, present in large quantities in the corein massive planets such as Jupiter and Saturn; White dwarf found in white dwarfs that our sun will happen one day; Neutronium found in neutron stars, the end point of the star development of stars from 1.35 to about 2.1 solar materials; strange matter; Or Quark Matter, he also postulated to exist in very massive stars.
In white dwarfs, the material is referred to as electron-degeneration, because there is no sufficient energy for the collapse of electrons into the atomic core and produces neutronium. In neutron stars, the material is called a neutron-degeneration mass, because the pressure is so large that the electrons are connected to the protons to form a mass that consists of nothing but neutrons. Under normal conditions, free neutrons degenerate into proton and vasi electron for 15 minutes, but under the huge pressure of the neutron star, the neutron mass is stable.
the most extremeThe form of degenerated matter, Strange Matter, is expected to exist in Quark Stars, stars with matter somewhere between neutron stars and black holes in which neutron and quark soup are formed. Quark stars are a possible candidate for a mysterious dark matter that forms most of the mass of observed galaxies.