Hadron-Quark Combustion as a Nonlinear, Dynamical System

TL;DR

This paper models hadron-quark combustion as a complex nonlinear dynamical system influenced by feedback from weak decays and neutrino transport, highlighting its sensitivity and intricate behavior.

Contribution

It conceptualizes hadron-quark combustion as a nonlinear system with feedback mechanisms, advancing understanding of its complex dynamics.

Findings

The system exhibits high sensitivity to certain processes.

Feedback from leptonic weak decays significantly influences combustion dynamics.

Neutrino transport plays a crucial role in the system's behavior.

Abstract

The hadron-quark combustion front is a system that couples various processes, such as chemical reactions, hydrodynamics, diffusion, and neutrino transport. Previous numerical work has shown that this system is very nonlinear, and can be very sensitive to some of these processes. In these proceedings, we contextualize the hadron-quark combustion as a nonlinear system, subject to dramatic feedback triggered by leptonic weak decays and neutrino transport.