Shear oscillations in the hadron-quark mixed phase

Understand

Inside neutron stars, the hadron-quark mixed phase is expected during the first order phase transition from the hadron phase to the quark phase.

• The geometrical structure of the mixed phase strongly depends on the surface tension at the hadron-quark interface.
• We evaluate the shear modulus which is one of the specific properties of the hadron-quark mixed phase.
• As an application, we study shear oscillations due to the hadron-quark mixed phase in neutron stars.