Atomic nucleus as a mesoscopic system

International Conference and Exhibition on Mesoscopic & Condensed Matter Physics

June 22-24, 2015 Boston, USA

Vladimir Zelevinsky

Michigan State University, USA

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

Complex atomic nuclei, similarly to complex atoms, molecules, and nanostructures of condensed matter, are typical mesoscopic objects. They are self-bound quantum many-body systems of strongly interacting constituents with clearly pronounced statistical regularities, where at the same time individual quantum states can be studied, experimentally and theoretically. The nuclei reveal the unique combination of single-particle (shells), collective (deformation, vibration, rotation, and superfluidity) and chaotic phenomena. In this talk I will discuss manifestations of quantum chaos in nuclei as a theoretical, experimental and computational tool. In particular, the violations of fundamental symmetries of nature (spatial inversion and time reversal) can be significantly enhanced in nuclei due to the special interplay of chaotic and structural effects. A related topic is thermalization in a closed quantum system without a heat bath where the driving force is provided by interparticle interactions. Finally I will touch the physics of open and marginally stable many-body systems, the main direction of the current development at the frontiers of modern nuclear physics.

Biography :

Vladimir Zelevinsky has completed his PhD from the Moscow State University in Russia and then worked for many years at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk. He spent three years as Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. From 1992 he is Professor at the Michigan State University. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and serving as Deputy Editor of the EPL Journal and Associate Editor of Nuclear Physics A Journal.

Email: zelevins@msu.edu