Overview
- Provides a self-contained, graduate-level introduction to this emerging topic
- Introduces the quantum-mechanical foundations underlying the theoretical approach
- Contains many worked examples and numerical codes
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 983)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides the first graduate-level, self-contained introduction to recent developments that lead to the formulation of the configuration-interaction approach for open quantum systems, the Gamow shell model, which provides a unitary description of quantum many-body system in different regimes of binding, and enables the unification in the description of nuclear structure and reactions. The Gamow shell model extends and generalizes the phenomenologically successful nuclear shell model to the domain of weakly-bound near-threshold states and resonances, offering a systematic tool to understand and categorize data on nuclear spectra, moments, collective excitations, particle and electromagnetic decays, clustering, elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, and radiative capture cross sections of interest to astrophysics.
The approach is of interest beyond nuclear physics and based on general properties of quasi-stationary solutions of the Schrödinger equation – so-called Gamow states. For the benefit of graduate students and newcomers to the field, the quantum-mechanical fundamentals are introduced in some detail. The text also provides a historical overview of how the field has evolved from the early days of the nuclear shell model to recent experimental developments, in both nuclear physics and related fields, supporting the unified description. The text contains many worked examples and several numerical codes are introduced to allow the reader to test different aspects of the continuum shell model discussed in the book.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Marek Płoszajczak is a Director of Research at the French Atomic Energy Commission, currently working at the GANIL SPIRAL2 accelerator center, Caen (France). He obtainedhis MSc at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and PhD at the Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn (Germany). He has held several research positions, including at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, SUNY Stony Brook, CRN Strasbourg, and GSI Darmstadt. In 1990, he became Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków (Poland). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a co-Director of the French-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei at GANIL, Caen, and co-organizer of the Training in Advanced Low Energy Nuclear Theory initiative. He authored/edited 3 books, is the author of 7 monographs, and over 200 scientific papers. His research interests focuses on open quantum system theory of atomic nucleus. He worked on fragmentation theory and order-parameter fluctuations in finite systems, quantum theory of molecular dynamics for fermions, quantization of large amplitude non-linear theories by time-periodic solutions, and microscopic theory of rapidly rotating nuclei.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gamow Shell Model
Book Subtitle: The Unified Theory of Nuclear Structure and Reactions
Authors: Nicolas Michel, Marek Płoszajczak
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69356-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69355-8Published: 25 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69356-5Published: 24 April 2021
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 503
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Quantum Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation