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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009401920
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Book description

Nuclear Superfluidity is a monograph devoted exclusively to pair correlations in nuclei. It begins by exploring pair correlations in a variety of systems including superconductivity in metals at low temperatures and superfluidity in liquid 3He and in neutron stars. The book goes on to introduce basic theoretical methods, symmetry breaking and symmetry restoration in finite many-body systems. The last few chapters are devoted to introducing results on the role of induced interactions in the structure of both normal and exotic nuclei. The most important of these is the renormalization of the pairing interaction due to the coupling of pairs of nucleons to low energy nuclear collective excitations. This book will be essential reading for researchers and students in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, and related research fields such as metal clusters, fullerenes and quantum dots. This 2005 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-x
  • Preface
    pp xi-xiv
  • 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-32
  • 2 - The pairing force and seniority
    pp 33-51
  • 3 - The BCS theory
    pp 52-71
  • 4 - Spontaneous symmetry breaking
    pp 72-91
  • 5 - Pairing vibrations
    pp 92-116
  • 6 - Phase transitions
    pp 117-153
  • 7 - Plastic behaviour of nuclei and other finite systems
    pp 154-169
  • 8 - Sources of pairing in nuclei
    pp 170-203
  • 9 - Beyond mean field
    pp 204-218
  • 10 - Induced interaction
    pp 219-256
  • 11 - Pairing in exotic nuclei
    pp 257-279
  • Appendix A - A brief résumé of second quantization
    pp 280-291
  • Appendix B - Single particle in a non-local potential
    pp 292-296
  • Appendix C - Useful relations in the treatment of collective modes
    pp 297-298
  • Appendix D - Particle-vibration coupling
    pp 299-304
  • Appendix E - Model of the single-particle strength function
    pp 305-307
  • Appendix F - Simple model of Pauli principle corrections
    pp 308-309
  • Appendix G - Pairing mean-field solution
    pp 310-319
  • Appendix H - Pairing in a single j-shell
    pp 320-326
  • Appendix I - Fluctuations and symmetry restoration
    pp 327-334
  • Appendix J - RPA solution of the pairing Hamiltonian
    pp 335-348
  • Appendix K - Vortices in nuclei
    pp 349-355
  • Appendix L - Josephson effect
    pp 356-360
  • References
    pp 361-373
  • Index

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