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The possibility of discovering twin stars, two neutron stars (NSs) with the same mass but different radii, is usually studied in forward modelings by using a restricted number of NS matter equation of state (EOS) encapsulating a first-order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-10 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

We extend the quark mean-field (QMF) model for nuclear matter and study the possible presence of quark matter inside the cores of neutron stars. A sharp first-order hadron-quark phase transition is implemented combining the QMF for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-30 Zhiqiang Miao , Ang Li , Zhenyu Zhu , Sophia Han

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen , Gaojian Wu

We study the hadron-quark phase transition in the interior of neutron stars (NS). For the hadronic sector, we use a microscopic equation of state (EOS) involving nucleons and hyperons derived within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach. For…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. F. Burgio

The existence of quark matter inside the heaviest neutron stars has been the topic of numerous recent studies, many of them suggesting that a phase transition to strongly interacting conformal matter inside neutron stars is feasible. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 János Takátsy , Péter Kovács , György Wolf , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

As the interior density of a neutron star can become very high, it has been expected and discussed that quark matter may exist inside it. To describe the transition from hadron to quark phases (and vice versa), there are mainly two methods;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Takahide Kambe , Tetsuya Katayama , Koichi Saito

An increase in the central density of a neutron star may trigger a phase transition from hadronic matter to deconfined quark matter in the core, causing it to collapse to a more compact hybrid-star configuration. We present a study of this,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 E. B. Abdikamalov , H. Dimmelmeier , L. Rezzolla , J. C. Miller

We investigate the properties of hybrid stars consisting of quark matter in the core and hadron matter in outer region. The hadronic and quark matter equations of state are calculated by using nonlinear Walecka model and chiral colour…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sanjay K. Ghosh , S. C. Phatak , Pradip K. Sahu

In this paper we investigate quark deconfinement in neutrons stars and their mergers, focusing on the effects of higher orders for the phase transition between hadronic and quark matter. The different descriptions we use to describe matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 P. Hammond , A. Clevinger , M. Albino , V. Dexheimer , S. Bernuzzi , C. Brown , W. Cook , B. Daszuta , J. Fields , E. Grundy , C. Providência , D. Radice , A. Steiner

Multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star mergers provide a unique opportunity to constrain the dense-matter equation of state. Although it is known from quantum chromodynamics that hadronic matter will undergo a phase transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Maximiliano Ujevic , Henrique Gieg , Federico Schianchi , Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Ingo Tews , Tim Dietrich

Binary neutron-star mergers offer crucial insights into the matter properties of neutron stars. We present the possible imprints in the gravitational wave signal from the nature of phase transition from such events. Our study employs a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Sagnik Chatterjee , Shamim Haque , Kamal Krishna Nath , Rana Nandi , Ritam Mallick

The effect of pasta phases on the quark-hadron phase transition is investigated for a set of relativistic mean-field equations of state for both hadron and quark matter. The results of the full numerical solution with pasta phases are…

We analyze the different possibilities for the hadron-quark phase transition occurring in beta-stable matter including hyperons in neutron stars. We use a Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach including hyperons for the hadronic equation of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Toshiki Maruyama , Satoshi Chiba , Hans-Josef Schulze , Toshitaka Tatsumi

We investigate the properties of hybrid stars with the hadron-quark phase transition by using a quasiparticle model. Results from our study indicate that the coupling constant $g$ can stiffen the EOS of hybrid star matter and thus increase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 He Liu , Yong-Hang Yang , Yue Han , Peng-Cheng Chu

Neutron stars were first posited in the early thirties, and discovered as pulsars in late sixties; however, only recently are we beginning to understand the matter they contain. This talk describes the continuing development of a consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Gordon Baym

Compact stars containing quark matter may masquerade as neutron stars in the range of measured mass and radius, making it difficult to draw firm conclusions on the phase of matter inside the star. The sensitivity of core $g$-mode…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-29 Wei Wei , Megan Barry , Thomas Klähn , Prashanth Jaikumar

We study the detectability of postmerger QCD phase transitions in neutron star binaries with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope. We perform numerical relativity simulations of neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Aviral Prakash , Ish Gupta , Matteo Breschi , Rahul Kashyap , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Domenico Logoteta , B. S. Sathyaprakash

In agreement with the constantly increasing gravitational wave events, new aspects of the internal structure of compact stars can be considered. A scenario in which a first order transition takes place inside these stars is of particular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-07 Lazaros Tsaloukidis , P. S. Koliogiannis , A. Kanakis-Pegios , Ch. C. Moustakidis

In this work, we consider the properties of compact stars in which quark matter has low- and high-density phases that are separated by a first-order phase transition. Thus, unlike the commonly considered case of a single phase transition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-27 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Mark Alford

The phase transition from hadronic matter to quark matter at high density might be a strong first order phase transition in presence of a large surface tension between the two phases. While this implies a constant-pressure mixed phase for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-29 G. Pagliara , M. Hempel , J. Schaffner-Bielich