In cores of supernovae and crusts of neutron stars, nuclei can adopt
interesting shapes, such as rods or slabs, etc., which are referred to as
nuclear "pasta." In recent years, we have studied the pasta phases focusing on
their dynamical aspects with a quantum molecular dynamic (QMD) approach. In
this article, we review these works. We also focus on the treatment of the
Coulomb interaction.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Tours
Symposium on Nuclear Physics VI (TOURS 2006
