Understanding Chaos via Nuclei

Abstract

We use two models of nuclear collective dynamics - the geometric collective model and the interacting boson model - to illustrate principles of classical and quantum chaos. We propose these models as a suitable testing ground for further elaborations of the general theory of chaos in both classical and quantum domains.

Comments: A course given at the Latin-American School of Physics "Marcos Moshinsky": Nonlinear Dynamics in Hamiltonian Systems, July-August 2013; 20 pages, 13 figures