Interface effects of strange quark matter.

The interface effects play important roles for the properties of strange quark matter (SQM) and the related physical processes. We show several examples on the implications of interface effects for both stable and unstable SQM. Based on an equiv-particle model and adopting mean-field approximation (MFA), the surface tension and curvature term of SQM can be obtained, which are increasing monotonically with the density of SQM at zero external pressure. For a parameter set constrained according to the 2M⊙ strange star, we find the surface tension is ∼2.4 MeV/fm², while it is larger for other cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]