1996/05/08 by Luciano Rezzolla · 2 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemistry #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Detonation #Explosive material #Front (military) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mechanics #Meteorology #Order (exchange) #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Stability (learning theory) #Theoretical physics #Thermodynamics #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.54.1345
published as Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 1345-1358 · 39 pages, LaTeX file plus 3 embedded PostScript figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. D (15 July issue)
arxiv created 1996/05/08 · openalex publication_date 1996/07/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present results of a linear stability analysis of relativistic detonation fronts, which have been considered as representing phase interfaces in cosmological first-order phase transitions. After discussing general stability conditions for detonation fronts, we concentrate on the properties of the fronts with respect to corrugation instabilities and discuss separately the cases of Chapman-Jouguet and strong detonation waves. Contrary to what is recently claimed, we find that strong detonations are both evolutionary and stable with respect to corrugations of the front. Moreover, Chapman-Jouguet detonations appear to be unconditionally linearly stable. The implications of the stability results for first-order cosmological phase transitions are presented and a discussion of the causal structure of reaction fronts is also given.