Static and Dynamical Properties of Neutron Stars with Combined 0- c Condensation: Consequences from the First Order Phase Transition

First Order Kaon Condensation in Neutron Stars: Finite Size Effects in the Mixed Phase

We study the role of Coulomb and surface effects on the phase transition from dense nuclear matter to a mixed phase of nuclear and kaon-condensed matter. We calculate corrections to the bulk calculation of the equation of state (EOS) and the critical density for the transition by solving explicitly for spherical, cylindrical and planar structures. The importance of Debye screening in the determ...

K̄ 0 condensation in neutron stars

We investigate the condensation of charged K meson and neutral K̄ meson in dense neutron star matter. Calculations are performed in relativistic mean field models in which both the baryon-baryon and (anti)kaon-baryon interactions are mediated by meson exchange. It is found that K̄ condensation is quite sensitive to the antikaon optical potential and depends more strongly on the nucleonic equation...

Kaon Condensation and Dynamical Nucleons in Neutron stars†

First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses

We investigate the dynamics of kinetically constrained models of glass formers by analysing the statistics of trajectories of the dynamics, or histories, using large deviation function methods. We show that, in general, these models exhibit a first-order dynamical transition between active and inactive dynamical phases. We argue that the dynamical heterogeneities displayed by these systems are ...

Gravitational Waves from Phase-transition Induced Collapse of Neutron Stars

We study the gravitational radiation from gravitational collapses of rapidly rotating neutron stars induced by a phase-transition from normal nuclear matter to a mixed phase of quark and nuclear matter in the core of the stars. The study is based on self-consistent three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with Newtonian gravity and a high resolution shock capturing scheme, and the quadrupole ...