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Generic ordering of structural transitions in quasi-one-dimensional Wigner crystals
We investigate the dependence of the structural phase transitions in an
infinite quasi-one-dimensional system of repulsively interacting particles on
the profile of the confining channel. Three different functional expressions
for the confinement potential related to real experimental systems are used
that can be tuned continuously from a parabolic to a hard-wall potential in
order to find a thorough understanding of the ordering of the chain-like
structure transitions. We resolve the longstanding issue why the most theories
predicted a 1-2-4-3-4 sequence of chain configurations with increasing density,
while some experiments found the 1-2-3-4 sequence.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
AB responses: from bare nucleons to complex nuclei
We study the occurrence of factorization in polarized and unpolarized
observables in coincidence quasi-elastic electron scattering. Starting with the
relativistic distorted wave impulse approximation, we reformulate the effective
momentum approximation and show that the latter leads to observables which
factorize under some specific conditions. Within this framework, the role
played by final state interactions and, in particular, by the spin-orbit term
is explored. Connection with the nonrelativistic formalism is studied in depth.
Numerical results are presented to illustrate the analytical derivations and to
quantify the differences between factorized and unfactorized approaches.Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures. Improved and extended version. To be published
in Phys. Rev.
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