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Nuclear symmetry enters a new phase

Aug 1, 2001

The transition of a physical system from one phase to another is familiar from everyday life. Water, for example, can be a solid (ice), a liquid or a gas (steam), and a change in temperature causes one phase to transmute into another. Phase transitions in atomic nuclei are more complicated - but a new modelling method could soon change that.

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