Development of collective behavior in nuclei Results primarily from correlations among valence nucleons. Instead of pure “shell model” configurations,
Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale Quantum Phase Transitions in Nuclear Physics R. F. Casten, WNSL, Yale.
Proton-neutron interactions
Lecture 4 Quantum Phase Transitions and the microscopic drivers of structural evolution.
Valence Proton-Neutron Interaction
