Octupole correlations near Te110

Quadrupole and octupole radiation from 16O near 39 MeV excitation.

Dynamical correlations near dislocation jamming.

Dislocation assemblies exhibit a jamming or yielding transition at a critical external shear stress value σ=σ{c}. Here we study the heterogeneous and collective nature of dislocation dynamics within a crystal plasticity model close to σ{c}, by considering the first-passage properties of the dislocation dynamics. As the transition is approached in the moving phase, the first-passage time distrib...

Nuclear octupole correlations and the enhancement of atomic time-reversal violation

We examine the time-reversal-violating nuclear ‘‘Schiff moment’’ that induces electric dipole moments in atoms. After presenting a self-contained derivation of the form of the Schiff operator, we show that the distribution of Schiff strength, an important ingredient in the ground-state Schiff moment, is very different from the electric-dipole-strength distribution, with the Schiff moment receiv...

Octupole correlations in positive-parity states of rare-earth and actinide nu- clei

In this contribution, further evidence of the importance of multiphonon-octupole excitations to describe experimental data in the rare earths and actinides will be presented. First, new results of a (p, t) experiment at the Q3D magnetic spectrograph in Munich will be discussed, which was performed to selectively excite J = 0 states in 240Pu. spd f interacting boson model (IBM) calculations sugg...

Electrostatic correlations near charged planar surfaces.

Electrostatic correlation effects near charged planar surfaces immersed in a symmetric electrolytes solution are systematically studied by numerically solving the nonlinear six-dimensional electrostatic self-consistent equations. We compare our numerical results with widely accepted mean-field (MF) theory results, and find that the MF theory remains quantitatively accurate only in weakly charge...