Microscopic Analysis of Order Parameters in Nuclear Quantum Phase Transitions

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2009-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/0912.1078v1

Phys.Rev.C80:061301,2009

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.80.061301

Microscopic signatures of nuclear ground-state shape phase transitions in Nd isotopes are studied using excitation spectra and collective wave functions obtained by diagonalization of a five-dimensional Hamiltonian for quadrupole vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom, with parameters determined by constrained self-consistent relativistic mean-field calculations for triaxial shapes. As a function of the physical control parameter -- the number of nucleons, energy gaps between the ground state and the excited vibrational states with zero angular momentum, isomer shifts, and monopole transition strengths, exhibit sharp discontinuities at neutron number N=90, characteristic of a first-order quantum phase transition.

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