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Mean first passage time for fission potentials having structure
A schematic model of over-damped motion is presented which permits one to
calculate the mean first passage time for nuclear fission. Its asymptotic value
may exceed considerably the lifetime suggested by Kramers rate formula, which
applies only to very special, favorable potentials and temperatures. The
additional time obtained in the more general case is seen to allow for a
considerable increment in the emission of light particles.Comment: 7 pages, LaTex, 7 postscript figures; Keywords: Decay rate, mean
first passage tim
Self-consistent quantal treatment of decay rates within the perturbed static path approximation
The framework of the Perturbed Static Path Approximation (PSPA) is used to
calculate the partition function of a finite Fermi system from a Hamiltonian
with a separable two body interaction. Therein, the collective degree of
freedom is introduced in self-consistent fashion through a Hubbard-Stratonovich
transformation. In this way all transport coefficients which dominate the decay
of a meta-stable system are defined and calculated microscopically. Otherwise
the same formalism is applied as in the Caldeira-Leggett model to deduce the
decay rate from the free energy above the so called crossover temperature
.Comment: 17 pages, LaTex, no figures; final version, accepted for publication
in PRE; e-mail: [email protected]
Microscopic Model versus Systematic Low-Energy Effective Field Theory for a Doped Quantum Ferromagnet
We consider a microscopic model for a doped quantum ferromagnet as a test
case for the systematic low-energy effective field theory for magnons and
holes, which is constructed in complete analogy to the case of quantum
antiferromagnets. In contrast to antiferromagnets, for which the effective
field theory approach can be tested only numerically, in the ferromagnetic case
both the microscopic and the effective theory can be solved analytically. In
this way the low-energy parameters of the effective theory are determined
exactly by matching to the underlying microscopic model. The low-energy
behavior at half-filling as well as in the single- and two-hole sectors is
described exactly by the systematic low-energy effective field theory. In
particular, for weakly bound two-hole states the effective field theory even
works beyond perturbation theory. This lends strong support to the quantitative
success of the systematic low-energy effective field theory method not only in
the ferromagnetic but also in the physically most interesting antiferromagnetic
case.Comment: 34 pages, 1 figur
4He experiments can serve as a database for determining the three-nucleon force
We report on microscopic calculations for the 4He compound system in the
framework of the resonating group model employing realistic nucleon-nucleon and
three nucleon forces. The resulting scattering phase shifts are compared to
those of a comprehensive R-matrix analysis of all data in this system, which
are available in numerical form. The agreement between calculation and analysis
is in most cases very good. Adding three-nucleon forces yields in many cases
large effects. For a few cases the new agreement is striking. We relate some
differencies between calculation and analysis to specific data and discuss
neccessary experiments to clarify the situation. From the results we conclude
that the data of the 4He system might be well suited to determine the structure
of the three-nucleon force.Comment: title changed,note added, format of figures changed, appearance of
figures in black-and-white changed, Phys. Rev. C accepte
Nuclear fission: The "onset of dissipation" from a microscopic point of view
Semi-analytical expressions are suggested for the temperature dependence of
those combinations of transport coefficients which govern the fission process.
This is based on experience with numerical calculations within the linear
response approach and the locally harmonic approximation. A reduced version of
the latter is seen to comply with Kramers' simplified picture of fission. It is
argued that for variable inertia his formula has to be generalized, as already
required by the need that for overdamped motion the inertia must not appear at
all. This situation may already occur above T=2 MeV, where the rate is
determined by the Smoluchowski equation. Consequently, comparison with
experimental results do not give information on the effective damping rate, as
often claimed, but on a special combination of local stiffnesses and the
friction coefficient calculated at the barrier.Comment: 31 pages, LaTex, 9 postscript figures; final, more concise version,
accepted for publication in PRC, with new arguments about the T-dependence of
the inertia; e-mail: [email protected]
Homogeneous versus Spiral Phases of Hole-doped Antiferromagnets: A Systematic Effective Field Theory Investigation
Using the low-energy effective field theory for magnons and holes -- the
condensed matter analog of baryon chiral perturbation theory for pions and
nucleons in QCD -- we study different phases of doped antiferromagnets. We
systematically investigate configurations of the staggered magnetization that
provide a constant background field for doped holes. The most general
configuration of this type is either constant itself or it represents a spiral
in the staggered magnetization. Depending on the values of the low-energy
parameters, a homogeneous phase, a spiral phase, or an inhomogeneous phase is
energetically favored. The reduction of the staggered magnetization upon doping
is also investigated.Comment: 35 pages, 5 figure
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