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Chaos Driven Decay of Nuclear Giant Resonances: Route to Quantum Self-Organization

S. Drozdz, S. Nishizaki, J. Wambach

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9312020

Abstract

The influence of background states with increasing level of complexity on the strength distribution of the isoscalar and isovector giant quadrupole resonance in 40Ca is studied. It is found that the background characteristics, typical for chaotic systems, strongly affects the fluctuation properties of the strength distribution. In particular, the small components of the wave function obey a scaling law analogous to self-organized systems at the critical state. This appears to be consistent with the Porter-Thomas distribution of the transition strength.

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