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Quantum choas and rotational damping

Åberg, S. LU (1992) In Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 28(C). p.11-47
Abstract

The appearence of quantum chaos in the excited rapidly rotating nucleus is studied in a simple nuclear model, consisting of the cranked Nilsson model with a schematic two-body interaction added. Chaos is found to smoothly set in at a much lower excitation energy in normal-deformed 168Yb than in superdeformed 152Dy. A dynamical sign of chaos is a saturation of the standard deviation of the E2-strength function, and also the disapearence of correlations in γ-γ-correlations. Motional narrowing may however restore the correlations also for the completely chaotic case. The distribution of E2-matrix elements strongly deviate from Porter-Thomas result, and many more strong γ-transitions appear than expected from... (More)

The appearence of quantum chaos in the excited rapidly rotating nucleus is studied in a simple nuclear model, consisting of the cranked Nilsson model with a schematic two-body interaction added. Chaos is found to smoothly set in at a much lower excitation energy in normal-deformed 168Yb than in superdeformed 152Dy. A dynamical sign of chaos is a saturation of the standard deviation of the E2-strength function, and also the disapearence of correlations in γ-γ-correlations. Motional narrowing may however restore the correlations also for the completely chaotic case. The distribution of E2-matrix elements strongly deviate from Porter-Thomas result, and many more strong γ-transitions appear than expected from GOE-theory. Transition entropy is introduced as a measure of order in the E2 cascade.

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GOE-analyses, high spin, motional narrowing, Quantum chaos, rotational damping, superdeformation, transition entropy, γ-γ-correlations
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Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
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28
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C
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37 pages
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Elsevier
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0146-6410
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10.1016/0146-6410(92)90012-Q
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English
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  author       = {{Åberg, S.}},
  issn         = {{0146-6410}},
  keywords     = {{GOE-analyses; high spin; motional narrowing; Quantum chaos; rotational damping; superdeformation; transition entropy; γ-γ-correlations}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{C}},
  pages        = {{11--47}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics}},
  title        = {{Quantum choas and rotational damping}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0146-6410(92)90012-Q}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/0146-6410(92)90012-Q}},
  volume       = {{28}},
  year         = {{1992}},
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