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Chaos assisted tunneling from superdeformed states

Åberg, Sven LU (1999) In Physical Review Letters 82(2). p.299-302
Abstract

The tunneling process that governs the decay from superdeformed to normal-deformed nuclear states is shown to be enhanced by several orders of magnitude (104 – 106) if the normal-deformed states are chaotic at the moment of decay out. The onset of (long-range) chaos may imply that the tunneling enhancement increases with decreasing angular momentum. Experimental signatures are discussed.

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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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0031-9007
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.299
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