Faculty of Mathematics & Physics Institute of Particle & Nuclear Physics Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, CZ-180 00 Prague Theoretical Nuclear Physics               physics of Complex                             Quantum                               Many-Body systems nuclear physics - unclear physics

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local crew:
Jan Kvasil	kvasil@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz	+420/221912471
Pavel Cejnar	cejnar@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz	+420/221912472	WWW
František Knapp	knapp@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz	+420/221912465
spread crew:
Pavel Stránský	stransky@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz	postdoc at UNAM, Mexico	WWW
Michal Macek	macek@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz	postdoc at Univ.of Jerusalem, Israel
Petr Veselý	vesely@ipnp.troja.mff.cuni.cz	postdoc at Jyväskylä, Finland

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Subjects of interest:

• Microscopic treatment of nuclear collective degrees of freedom
  Long-range residual interactions of nucleons generate highly correlated types of motions...

  Presentations:	Electric and magnetic collective modes
  	Pairing in energy denstity functional approach,
  	Electric and Vorticity Strengths in Heavier Nuclei

• Nuclear many-body problem
  Description of nuclear states in terms of elementary vibrational modes...
  New methods for diagonalizations of large matrices for nuclear shell model...

  Presentation:	Equation-of-motion phonon method
  Paper:	Important sampling algorithm in the nuclear shell model

• Quantum phase transitions in nuclei and other many-body systems
  Abrupt changes of the system's properties with particle number, excitation energy, spin...

  Presentations:	Fázové přechody v jádrech
  	Quantum phase transitions: from spin arrays to many-body systems,
  	Quantum phase transitions and nuclear structure
  	Fundamental aspects of nuclear shape phase transitions

• Symmetry and chaos in nuclear collective dynamics
  Chaos in many body systems persists even at low energies. Where is its origin?

  Web pages:	Sphairos and Chaos in atomic nuclei
  Article:	Kvantový chaos
  Presentations:	Kvantový chaos
  	Chaos in the collective dynamics of atomic nuclei

• Boson models of nuclear structure
  Why do they work when nuclei are made of fermions?

  Articles:	Bosonizace fermionů
  	Dynamické symetrie v jaderné fyzice

Publications:

Kvasil, Knapp, Veselý... Cejnar, Stránský, Macek...

International collaboration:
NPI Řež (CZ), Uni Napoli (IT), Uni Köln (DE), Uni Madrid & Sevilla (ES), Yale Uni (USA), UNAM Mexico City (MEX), JINR Dubna (RU)...

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P.Cejnar                         last modification 21.01.2011

Institute of Particle & Nuclear Physics
Faculty of Mathematics & Physics