Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-03-04
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 103010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
24 pages, 8 BW figures, 6 color figures; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.103010
Recent results from linear perturbation theory suggest that first-order cosmological quark-hadron phase transitions occurring as deflagrations may be ``borderline'' unstable, and those occurring as detonations may give rise to growing modes behind the interface boundary. However, since nonlinear effects can play important roles in the development of perturbations, unstable behavior cannot be asserted entirely by linear analysis, and the uncertainty of these recent studies is compounded further by nonlinearities in the hydrodynamics and self-interaction fields. In this paper we investigate the growth of perturbations and the stability of quark-hadron phase transitions in the early Universe by solving numerically the fully nonlinear relativistic hydrodynamics equations coupled to a scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential regulating the transitions. We consider single, perturbed, phase transitions propagating either by detonation or deflagration, as well as multiple phase and shock front interactions in 1+2 dimensional spacetimes.
Anninos Peter
Fragile Chris P.
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