Chemical and mechanical spinodals a unique liquid-gas instability
arXiv:nucl-th/0303024 · doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(03)01383-6
Abstract
We demonstrate that the instabilities of asymmetric nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities do not present two types of instabilities as usually discussed but a unique one. The associated order parameter is everywhere dominated by the isoscalar density and so the transition is of liquid-gas type even in the so-called chemical instability region.
6 pages, 3 figures, International Symposium on Physics of Unstable Nuclei, Halong Bay(Vietnam) Nov. 2002
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