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Quantum Kinetics of Deconfinement Transitions in Dense Nuclear Matter: Dissipation Effects at Low Temperatures

Kei Iida

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9710012

Abstract

Effects of energy dissipation on quantum nucleation of two-flavor quark matter in dense nuclear matter encountered in neutron star cores are examined at low temperatures. We find that low-energy excitations of nucleons and electrons reduce the nucleation rate exponentially via their collisions with the surface of a quark matter droplet.

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