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We review the theory of nuclear collective vibrations evolved over decades from phenomenological quasiclassical picture to sophisticated microscopic approaches. The major focus is put on the underlying microscopic mechanisms of emergent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-02 Haozhao Liang , Elena Litvinova

We analyse collective motion that occurs during rare (large deviation) events in systems of active particles, both numerically and analytically. We discuss the associated dynamical phase transition to collective motion, which occurs when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yann-Edwin Keta , Étienne Fodor , Frédéric van Wijland , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

The chaotic dynamics in nuclear collective motion is studied in the framework of a schematic shell model which has only monopole and quadrupole degrees of freedom. The model is shown to reproduce the experimentally observed global trend…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Naotaka Yoshinaga , Nobuaki Yoshida , Takaomi Shigehara , Taksu Cheon

We study the conditions under which the nucleons inside a deformed nucleus can undergo chaotic motion. To do this we perform self-consistent calculations in semiclassical approximation utilizing a multipole-multipole interaction of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Wolfgang Bauer , Vladimir Zelevinsky , Peter Schuck

A semiclassical model based on the solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems with a sharp moving surface has been used to study the isoscalar quadrupole and octupole collective modes in heavy spherical nuclei. Within this model, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 V. I. Abrosimov , A. Dellafiore , F. Matera

The relativistic mean-field theory provides a framework in which the nuclear many-body problem is described as a self-consistent system of nucleons and mesons. In the mean-field approximation, the self-consistent time evolution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Vretenar

The self-consistent harmonic oscillator model including the three-dimensional cranking term is extended to describe collective excitations in the random phase approximation. It is found that quadrupole collective excitations associated with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

We report on collective non-linear dynamics in an optical lattice formed inside a high finesse ring cavity in a so far unexplored regime, where the light shift per photon times the number of trapped atoms exceeds the cavity resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Nagorny , Th. Elsaesser , A. Hemmerich

The main ideas behind nuclear supersymmetry are presented, starting from the basic concepts of symmetry and the methods of group theory in physics. We propose new, more stringent experimental tests that probe the supersymmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-02 A. Frank , J. Barea , R. Bijker

The effect of pairing on small and large amplitude dynamics is discussed. Pairing correlation is treated in a fully microscopic transport theory using a simplified BCS version of the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock Bogolyubov (TDHFB) theory.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Scamps Guillaume , Lacroix Denis

A realistic microscopically-based quantum approach to the competition between fusion and quasi-fission in a heavy fusing system is applied to several reactions leading to $^{256}$No. Fusion and quasi-fission are described in terms of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexis Diaz-Torres

The relativistic mean-field theory provides a framework in which the nuclear many-body problem is described as a self-consistent system of nucleons and mesons. In the mean-field approximation, the self-consistent time evolution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Vretenar , P. Ring , G. A. Lalazissis , N. Paar

Low-lying quadrupole shape dynamics is a typical manifestation of large amplitude collective motion in finite nuclei. To describe the dynamics on a microscopic foundation, we have formulated a consistent scheme in which the Bohr collective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Matsuo , N. Hinohara , K. Sato , K. Matsuyanagi , T. Nakatsukasa , K. Yoshida

On the basis of time-dependent mean-field picture, we discuss the nature of the low-frequency quadrupole vibrations from small-amplitude to large-amplitude regimes as representatives of surface shape vibrations of a superfluid droplet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Kenichi Matsuyanagi , Nobuo Hinohara , Koichi Sato

Subdiffusion is a generic feature of chaotic many-body dynamics with multipole conservation laws and subsystem symmetries. We numerically study this subdiffusive dynamics, using quantum automaton random unitary circuits, in a broad range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jason Iaconis , Andrew Lucas , Rahul Nandkishore

There exists a class of nuclei that are obtained by adding one nucleon to a loosely-bound nucleon-core system, for example $^{12}$Be, $^9$C, $^{18}$Ne. For such nuclei, one-nucleon overlap integrals that represent single-particle motion can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 N. K. Timofeyuk , I. J. Thompson , J. A. Tostevin

Using a theory of large amplitude collective motion, the adiabatic self-consistent collective coordinate method, we derive reaction path for the fusion process at sub-barrier energies. The collective Hamiltonian to describe the fusion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Kai Wen , Takashi Nakatsukasa

We study slow collective motion of isoscalar type at finite excitation. The collective variable is parameterized as a shape degree of freedom and the mean field is approximated by a deformed shell model potential. We concentrate on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Helmut Hofmann , Fedor A. Ivanyuk , Shuhei Yamaji

In the framework of mean-field based transport approaches, we discuss recent results concerning collective motion and low-energy heavy ion reactions involving neutron-rich systems. We focus on aspects which are particularly sensitive to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-11 Stefano Burrello , Maria Colonna , Hua Zheng

We review the observations and the basic laws describing the essential aspects of collective motion -- being one of the most common and spectacular manifestation of coordinated behavior. Our aim is to provide a balanced discussion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-16 Tamás Vicsek , Anna Zafeiris