At the edge of nuclear stability: nonlinear quantum amplifiers
Nuclear Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We show that nuclei lying at the edge of stability can behave as nonlinear quantum amplifiers. A tiny change in the nucleon-nucleon interaction can trigger a much bigger change in the binding energy of these systems, relative to the few-cluster breakup threshold.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0010051,
title = {At the edge of nuclear stability: nonlinear quantum amplifiers},
author = {Attila Csoto and Heinz Oberhummer and Helmut Schlattl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0010051},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages with 1 figure. Proceedings of the Exotic Nuclear Structures Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 15-20 May, 2000. To be published in Heavy Ion Physics. The postscript file and more information are available at http://matrix.elte.hu/~csoto http://info.tuwien.ac.at/e142/ and http://www.MPA-Garching.MPG.DE/~schlattl/