Chemical and mechanical spinodals a unique liquid-gas instability

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Publication:1408024

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(03)01383-6zbMATH Open1031.82504arXivnucl-th/0303024OpenAlexW3100292519MaRDI QIDQ1408024FDOQ1408024


Authors: J. Margueron, P. Chomaz Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 September 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We demonstrate that the instabilities of asymmetric nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities do not present two types of instabilities as usually discussed but a unique one. The associated order parameter is everywhere dominated by the isoscalar density and so the transition is of liquid-gas type even in the so-called chemical instability region.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0303024











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