Published September 7, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Disentangling phase transitions and critical points in the proton–neutron interacting boson model by catastrophe theory

  • 1. Unidad Asociada de la Universidad de Huelva al IEM (CSIC), Madrid (Spain)
  • 2. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva (Spain)
  • 3. Unidad Asociada de la Universidad de Sevilla al IEM (CSIC), Madrid (Spain)
  • 4. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, Apdo 1065, 41080 Sevilla (Spain)
  • 5. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid (Spain)

Description

We introduce the basic concepts of catastrophe theory needed to derive analytically the phase diagram of the proton–neutron interacting boson model (IBM-2). Previous studies [1–3] were based on numerical solutions. We here explain the whole IBM-2 phase diagram including the precise order of the phase transitions in terms of the cusp catastrophe

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.07.038

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.07.038;
arXiv
arXiv:1407.5573v1;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00540-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
736
Journal Page Range
p. 333-338
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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