Chaoticity in vibrating nuclear billiards

May, 1995
10 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 52 (1995) 2475-2479
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Abstract:
We study the motion of classical particles confined in a two-dimensional "nuclear" billiard whose walls undergo periodic shape oscillations according to a fixed multipolarity. The presence of a coupling term in the single particle Hamiltonian between the particle motion and the collective coordinate generates a fully selfconsistent dynamics. We consider in particular monopole oscillations and demonstrate that self-consistency is essential in order to induce chaotic single-particle motion. We also discuss the dissipative behaviour of the wall motion and its relation with the order-to-chaos transition in the dynamics of the microscopic degrees of freedom. Analogous considerations can be extended to higher multipolarities.
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