Eur. Phys. J. A 10, 97-100

Landau-Ginzburg treatment of nuclear matter at finite temperature

R.A. Ritchie^{1, 2}, H.G. Miller^{1, 3} and F.C. Khanna<sup>1, 2

1</sup>  Theoretical Physics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J1
²  TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A3
³  Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa (Permanent address)

hmiller@maple.up.ac.za
khanna@phys.ualberta.ca

(Received: 29 July 2000 / Revised version: 2 October 2000 Communicated by A. Molinari)

Abstract
Based on recent studies of the temperature dependence of the energy and specific heat of liquid nuclear matter, a phase transition is suggested at a temperature MeV. We apply the Landau-Ginzburg theory to this transition and determine the behaviour of the energy and specific heat close to the critical temperature in the condensed phase.

PACS
21.65.+f - Nuclear matter.
74.20.De - Phenomenological theories (two-fluid, Ginzburg-Landau, etc.).

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