Instability of Bubbles Near the Hadron--Quark-Gluon-Plasma Phase Transition

Abstract

The small surface tension of the interface between hadronic and quark-gluon-plasma domains, along with a negative curvature tension, implies that the uniform plasma is unstable against spontaneous formation of hadronic bubbles. We furthermore show that spherical bubbles are not stable against small perturbations.

6 pages, Latex + 2 figures; corrected inclusion of figures