An Alternative Description of the Prolate-Oblate Shape Phase Transition in the Interacting Boson Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 102101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo Zhang ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Yang An ◽  
Sheng-Xin Li ◽  
Jia Xu
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
D. Bonatsos ◽  
S. Karampagia ◽  
R. F. Casten

The U(5), SU(3), and O(6) symmetries of the Interacting Boson Model (IBM) have been traditionally placed at the vertices of the symmetry triangle, while an O(5) symmetry is known to hold along the U(5)–O(6) side of the triangle. We construct [1] for the first time a symmetry line in the interior of the triangle, along which the SU(3) symmetry is preserved. This is achieved by using the contraction of the SU(3) algebra to the algebra of the rigid rotator in the large boson number limit of the IBM. The line extends from the SU(3) vertex to near the critical line of the first order shape/phase transition separating the spherical and prolate deformed phases. It lies within the Alhassid–Whelan arc of regularity, the unique valley of regularity connecting the SU(3) and U(5) vertices amidst chaotic regions, thus providing an explanation for its existence.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
E. A. McCutchan ◽  
D. Bonatsos ◽  
R. F. Casten

The parameter independent (up to overall scale factors) predictions of the X(5)-β2, X(5)-β4, and X(3) models, which are variants of the X(5) critical point symmetry developed within the framework of the geometric collective model, are compared to two- parameter calculations in the framework of the interacting boson approximation (IBA) model. The results show that these geometric models coincide with IBA parameters consistent with the phase/shape transition region of the IBA for boson numbers of physical interest (close to 10). 186Pt and 172Os are identified as good examples of X(3), while 146Ce, 174Os and 158Er, 176Os are identified as good examples of X(5)-β2 and X(5)-β4 behavior respectively.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 1711-1721 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUE ZHAO ◽  
YANG LIU ◽  
LIANG-ZHU MU ◽  
YU-XIN LIU

With the intrinsic coherent state formalism and the angular momentum projection, we study the shape phase structure of the yrast states in the dynamical symmetries of the IBM. We found that the states in the U (5) symmetry can undergo a rotation driven vibrational to axially rotational shape phase transition if the interaction parameters take negative values smaller than the critical ones. It shows that the U (5) symmetry of the IBM1 is an appropriate approach to describe the rotation driven shape phase transition along the yrast line of individual nucleus as the interaction parameters are taken in a special region. The O (6) symmetric yrast states may involve a phase transition from γ-soft rotation to triaxial rotation as the angular momentum increases, if the interaction parameters are specially chosen. And the yrast states in SU (3) symmetry always appear in the axially prolate shape phase.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
P. Koseoglou ◽  
V. Werner ◽  
N. Pietralla ◽  
D. Bonatsos

The even-even nuclei, near the the N=90 quantum shape phase transition, of cerium, neodymium and samarium isotopic chains were placed in the interacting boson model symmetry triangle. The different trajectories of the chains revealed the increasing γ-dependence from samarium to cerium by decreasing Z, which can be associated with the decreasing sharpness of the transition from spherical to deformed structures.


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