Coexistence of strange quark stars and neutron stars: metastability and nucleation in proto-neutron stars

arXiv:2610.00699 · nucl-th, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

nucl-th, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/guerrinimirco/metastability-nucleation

Terminology

• Core — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Coherence Length — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metastability — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• First-Order Transition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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