Fluctuations in the Shape Transitions of Hot Nuclei
- 18 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (3) , 294-297
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.294
Abstract
The effect of quantal and thermal quadrupole shape fluctuations in the giant dipole response function of hot nuclei at high spin is studied within the Landau theory of phase transitions. The effects are found to be important in the relation of the nuclear shape to the experimental findings, and in the identification of shape phase transitions.Keywords
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