These condensates characterize the normal phase or the confined phase of quark matter.

Then, in a few seconds to a few days, the collapse could continue, producing even greater densities and thus freeing quark matter on its own.

In the quark picture this is, however, a drop of quark matter.

It seems to be a nugget of quark matter.

And when the pressure gets high enough quark matter can form.

All you need is a tiny part of the core of the star to flip over, and you get a quark matter runaway.

The correct thermodynamic treatment of quark matter depends on the physical context.

The phase diagram of quark matter is not well known, either experimentally or theoretically.

They might be other forms of color-superconducting quark matter, or something different.

The resultant star would have quark matter in its interior.