Thermodynamic instabilities in compact stars

A. Lavagno and D. Pigato

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 531, issue C

Abstract: We investigate the presence of thermodynamic instabilities in the high density nuclear matter reached in the central core of compact stars. In the framework of a relativistic mean-field theory, we study the cold hadronic equation of state in beta-equilibrium and charge neutral matter, including hyperons and Δ-isobar degrees of freedom. By considering fluctuations of the electric charge concentration of strongly interacting matter, we analyze a finite density phase transition characterized by pure hadronic matter with both mechanical instability that by chemical-diffusive instability. It turns out that in this situation hadronic phases with different values of electric charge content may coexist, with several implications in the bulk properties of compact stars.

Keywords: Phase transition; Fluctuations of conserved charges; Neutron stars (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.121595

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