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20162025
most citedThe Science of the Einstein Telescope

97 citations · 503 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

nucl-th2025

Thermoelectric coefficients of two-flavor quark matter from the Kubo formalism

Harutyun Gabuzyan, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

The hot quark matter created in heavy-ion collision experiments can exhibit strong temperature and chemical-potential gradients, which in turn can generate electric fields through…

astro-ph.HE2025

Impact of positrons on electrical conductivity of hot and dense astrophysical plasma

Tigran Petrosyan, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We study the influence of positrons on the outer crusts of neutron stars and the interiors of white dwarfs, introducing them as a novel component in both the composition of matter…

astro-ph.HE2025

Thermal conduction and thermopower of a warm neutron star crust in magnetic fields

Henrik Danielyan, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We compute the thermal conductivity and thermopower of the inner crust of compact stars over a broad temperature-density domain relevant to proto-neutron stars, binary neutron-star…

nucl-th2025★ 2 cited

Bulk Viscosity of Two-Flavor Color Superconducting Quark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian +1

This work investigates the bulk viscosity of warm, dense, neutrino-transparent, color-superconducting quark matter, where damping of density oscillations in the kHz frequency range…

nucl-th2025★ 3 cited

Generalized relativistic second-order dissipative hydrodynamics: coupling different rank tensors

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

In this work, we extend the formalism of second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics, developed previously using Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical operator formalism. B…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Hall Effect in Dense Electron-Ion Plasma

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

In this study, we examine thermal conductivity and the thermal Hall effect in electron-ion plasmas relevant to hot neutron stars, white dwarfs, and binary neutron star mergers, foc…

nucl-th2024★ 11 cited

Bulk viscosity of two-color superconducting quark matter in neutron star mergers

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian +1

We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent color superconducting quark matter arising from weak-interaction-driven direct URCA processes. The qua…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Electrical conductivity of warm neutron star crust in magnetic fields: Neutron-drip regime

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian, Narine T. Gevorgyan +1

We compute the anisotropic electrical conductivity tensor of the inner crust of a compact star at non-zero temperature by extending a previous work on the conductivity of the outer…

nucl-th2023★ 19 cited

Bulk viscosity from Urca processes: matter in the neutrino-transparent regime

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent relativistic matter arising from weak-interaction direct Urca processes. This work parallels ou…

nucl-th2023★ 7 cited

Phenomenological Relativistic Second-Order Hydrodynamics for Multiflavor Fluids

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

In this work, we perform a phenomenological derivation of the first- and second-order relativistic hydrodynamics of dissipative fluids. To set the stage, we start with a review of…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 30 cited

Bulk Viscosity of Relativistic Matter in Neutron-Star Mergers

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We discuss the bulk viscosity of hot and dense matter arising from weak-interaction direct Urca processes. We consider two regimes of interest: (a) the neutrino-transparent…

nucl-th2022★ 40 cited

Delta-resonances and hyperons in proto-neutron stars and merger remnants

Armen Sedrakian, Arus Harutyunyan

The equation of state (EoS) and composition of dense and hot -resonance admixed hypernuclear matter is studied under conditions that are characteristic of neutron star binary me…

nucl-th2021★ 24 cited

Equation of state and composition of proto-neutron stars and merger remnants with hyperons

Armen Sedrakian, Arus Harutyunyan

Finite-temperature equation of state (EoS) and the composition of dense nuclear and hypernuclear matter under conditions characteristic of neutron star binary merger remnants and s…

nucl-th2021

Relativistic second-order dissipative hydrodynamics from Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical operator

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian, Dirk H. Rischke

We present a new derivation of relativistic second-order dissipative hydrodynamics for quantum systems using Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical-operator formalism. This is achie…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 41 cited

Bulk viscosity from Urca processes: matter in the neutrino-trapped regime

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

In this work, we extend our previous study of the bulk viscosity of hot and dense matter induced by the Urca processes in the neutrino trapped regime to matter by addi…

nucl-th2020

Bulk Viscous Damping of Density Oscillations in Neutron Star Mergers

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

In this paper, we discuss the damping of density oscillations in dense nuclear matter in the temperature range relevant to neutron star mergers. This damping is due to bulk viscosi…

astro-ph.HE2019

On the importance of resistivity and Hall effect in MHD simulations of binary neutron star mergers

Arus S. Harutyunyan

We examine the range of rest-mass densities, temperatures and magnetic fields involved in simulations of binary neutron star mergers (BNSM) and identify the conditions under which…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 64 cited

Bulk viscosity of baryonic matter with trapped neutrinos

Mark Alford, Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We study bulk viscosity arising from weak current Urca processes in dense baryonic matter at and beyond nuclear saturation density. We consider the temperature regime where neutrin…

nucl-th2018★ 3 cited

Bulk Viscosity of Hot Quark Plasma from Non-Equilibrium Statistical Operator

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We provide a discussion of the bulk viscosity of two-flavor quark plasma, described by the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model, within the framework of Kubo-Zubarev formalism. This discussio…

nucl-th2018★ 17 cited

Relativistic Dissipative Fluid Dynamics from Non-Equilibrium Statistical Operator

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian, Dirk H. Rischke

We present a new derivation of second-order relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics for quantum systems using Zubarev's formalism for the non-equilibrium statistical operator. In p…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 27 cited

Electrical Resistivity and Hall Effect in Binary Neutron-Star Mergers

Arus Harutyunyan, Antonios Nathanail, Luciano Rezzolla +1

We examine the range of rest-mass densities, temperatures and magnetic fields involved in simulations of binary neutron-star mergers and identify the conditions under which the ide…

hep-ph2017★ 12 cited

Bulk viscosity of two-flavor quark matter from the Kubo formalism

Arus Harutyunyan, Armen Sedrakian

We study the bulk viscosity of quark matter in the strong coupling regime within the two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The dispersive effects that lead to non-zero bulk viscosi…

nucl-th2017★ 28 cited

Transport coefficients of two-flavor quark matter from the Kubo formalism

Arus Harutyunyan, Dirk H. Rischke, Armen Sedrakian

The transport coefficients of quark matter at non-zero chemical potential and temperature are computed within the two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We apply the Kubo formalism…