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Stable Coulomb bubbles ?

L. G. Moretto, K. Tso, G. J. Wozniak

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/9612004

Abstract

Coulomb bubbles, though stable against monopole displacement, are unstable at least with respect to quadrupole and octupole distortions. We show that there exists a temperature at which the pressure of the vapor filling the bubble stabilizes all the radial modes. In extremely thin bubbles, the crispation modes become unstable due to the surface-surface interaction.

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