Boiling of strange quark matter in the early Universe: Strangeness conservation and nonequilibrium conditions
- 15 March 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 47 (6) , 2313-2323
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.47.2313
Abstract
Boiling of strange quark matter in the early Universe is studied for both equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. A solution to the problem of strangeness difference between phases is given, and the importance of the curvature term in the free energy is discussed. It is shown that if strange quark matter is stable at zero pressure and temperature, boiling is unlikely to occur.Keywords
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