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Random interactions are used to investigate to what extent the low-lying behavior of even-even nuclei depend on particular nucleon-nucleon interactions. The surprising results that were obtained for the interacting boson model, i.e. the…
Low-lying states in nuclei are investigated using an ensemble of random interactions. Both in the nuclear shell model and in the interacting boson model we find a dominance of $J^P=0^+$ ground states. It is shown that this feature is not…
Low-lying collective states in nuclei are investigated in the framework of the interacting boson model using an ensemble of random many-body interactions. It is shown that whenever the number of bosons is sufficiently large compared to the…
We review recent results obtained in numerical studies of the nuclear shell model and the interacting boson model with random interactions, in particular the dominance of ground states with L=0 and the occurrence of vibrational and…
The ground states of all even-even nuclei have angular momentum, $I$, equal to zero, I=0, and positive parity, $\pi=+$. This feature was believed to be a consequence of the attractive short-range interaction between nucleons. However, in…
We investigate the phenomenom of emerging regular spectral features from random interactions. In particular, we address the dominance of L=0 ground states in the context of the vibron model and the interacting boson model. A mean-field…
The anharmonic vibrator and rotor regions in nuclei are investigated in the framework of the interacting boson model using an ensemble of random one- and two-body interactions. Despite the randomness of the interactions (in sign and size)…
Bosonic degrees of freedom and their emergence as a part of complex quantum many-body dynamics, symmetries, collective behavior, clustering and phase transitions play an important role in modern studies of quantum systems. In this work we…
Using all the available empirical information, we analyse the spacing distributions of low-lying 2+ levels in even-even nuclei by comparing them with a theoretical distribution characterized by a single parameter (the chaoticity parameter…
Standard concepts of nuclear physics explaining the systematics of ground state spins in nuclei by the presence of specific coherent terms in the nucleon-nucleon interaction were put in doubt by the observation that these systematics can be…
We study the origin of the regular features obtained in numerical studies of the IBM with random interactions, in particular the dominance of L=0 ground states and the occurrence of vibrational and rotational band structures. It is shown…
In these lecture notes I present a short review of nuclear shapes, shape coexistence and shape-phase transitions in the interacting boson model. In a study with random interactions it is shown that the appearance of regular spectral…
We present our results on properties of ground states for nucleonic systems in the presence of random two-body interactions. In particular we present probability distributions for parity, seniority, spectroscopic (i.e., in the laboratory…
The anharmonic vibrator and rotor regions in nuclei are investigated in the framework of the interacting boson model using an ensemble of random one- and two-body interactions. We find a predominance of L(P)=0(+) ground states, as well as…
Compared with even-even nuclear systems, the dynamical structure of low-lying excited states in odd-odd nuclei poses significantly greater theoretical challenges. The interacting boson fermion fermion model provides an effective framework…
The observed preponderance of ground states with angular momentum L=0 in many-body quantum systems with random two-body interactions is analyzed in terms of correlation coefficients (covariances) among different eigenstates. It is shown…
Random one plus two-body hamiltonians invariant with respect to $O({\cal N}_1) \oplus O({\cal N}_2)$ symmetry in the group-subgroup chains $U({\cal N}) \supset U({\cal N}_1) \oplus U({\cal N}_2) \supset O({\cal N}_1) \oplus O({\cal N}_2)$…
All nuclei with even numbers of protons and of neutrons have ground states with zero angular momentum. This is ascribed to the pairing force between nucleons, but simulations with random interactions suggest a much broader many-body…
Using all the available empirical information, we analyze the spacing distributions of low-lying 2-plus levels of even-even nuclei. To obtain statistically relevant samples, the nuclei are grouped into classes defined by the ratio R4/2 of…
We investigate the low-lying spectra of many-body systems with random two-body interactions, specifying that the ensemble be invariant under particle-hole conjugation.Surprisingly we find patterns reminiscent of more orderly interactions,…