Heated Nuclear Matter, Condensation Phenomena, and the Hadronic Equation of State

1995/06/21 by K. C. Chase, A. Z. Mekjian · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensation #Equation of state #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ideal gas #Nuclear matter #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Percolation (cognitive psychology) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Statistical physics #Thermodynamics #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.75.4732

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 4732-4735 · 12 pages, revtex, 1 ps file appended (figure 1)

arxiv created 1995/06/21 · openalex publication_date 1995/12/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The thermodynamic properties of heated nuclear matter are explored using an exactly solvable canonical ensemble model. This model reduces to the results of an ideal Fermi gas at low temperatures. At higher temperatures, the fragmentation of the nuclear matter into clusters of nucleons leads to features that resemble a Bose gas. Some parallels of this model with the phenomena of Bose condensation and with percolation phenomena are discussed. A simple expression for the hadronic equation of state is obtained from the model.

Citations

• An introduction to percolation theory

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