Exotic nuclei far from the line of beta-stability have gained considerable interest in recent years both on the experimental as on the theoretical side. New phenomena are expected such as dramatic changes in the nuclear shell structure. A reliable description of the spin-orbit term and its isospin dependence is therefore necessary. On the other hand the Fermi surface comes very close to the con...

014202-1 We investigate the validity of theVlasov-Poisson equations for calculating properties of systems of N charged particles governed by time-independent Hamiltonians. Through numerical experiments we verify that there is a smooth convergence toward a continuum limit as N ! 1 and the particle charge q ! 0 such that the system charge Q qN remains fixed. However, in real systems N and q are a...