Mukherjee, Dipanjan2021-09-132021-09-130250-6335http://hdl.handle.net/1885/247814The surface magnetic field strength of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is found to be about 4 orders of magnitude lower than that of garden variety radio pulsars (with a spin of ∼0.5–5 s and B∼1012 G). The exact mechanism of the apparent reduction of field strength in MSPs is still a subject of debate. One of the proposed mechanisms is burial of the surface magnetic field under matter accreted from a companion. In this article we review the recent work on magnetic confinement of accreted matter on neutron stars poles. We present the solutions of the magneto-static equations with a more accurate equation of state of the magnetically confined plasma and discuss its implications for the field burial mechanism.application/pdfen-AU© Indian Academy of SciencesNeutron starsmagnetic fieldsbinaries: general201710.1007/s12036-017-9465-62020-11-23