Stable Coulomb bubbles ?
Nuclear Experiment
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
Coulomb bubbles, though stable against monopole displacement, are unstable at least with respect to quadrupole and octupole distortions. We show that there exists a temperature at which the pressure of the vapor filling the bubble stabilizes all the radial modes. In extremely thin bubbles, the crispation modes become unstable due to the surface-surface interaction.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/9612004,
title = {Stable Coulomb bubbles ?},
author = {L. G. Moretto and K. Tso and G. J. Wozniak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/9612004},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, TeX, epsfig, also available at http://csa5.lbl.gov/moretto/ps/bubble.ps, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett