Thermal fluctuations in nuclear pasta

Despite their astrophysical relevance, nuclear pasta phases are relatively unstudied at high temperatures. We present molecular dynamics simulations of symmetric matter with several topologies `lasagna' a range temperatures to study the pasta-uniform transition. Using Minkowski functionals we quantify trends in occupied volume, surface area, mean breadth, and Euler characteristic. The amplitude displacements increase temperature which produce short lived topological defects such as holes filaments near melting, resulting power laws for increasing curvature temperature. calculate static structure factor report shear viscosity thermal conductivity pasta, finding that is minimized melting These results may have implications thermoelastic properties finite corrections equation state densities.