https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00321-7
Review
Alpha condensate and dynamics of cluster formation
College of Science and Engineering, Kanto Gakuin University, 236-8501, Yokohama, Japan
Received:
3
October
2020
Accepted:
1
December
2020
Published online:
7
January
2021
The picture of alpha condensation is extended to a general concept of nonlocalized clustering, which is the so-called container picture and is applicable to promisingly all the cluster structures. The extended version of the so-called THSR wave function demonstrates the competition between the localized and nonlocalized cluster motions and then leads to the concept of the container, which plays a role in trapping the constituent clusters in a flexible way. It is also shown that the path of cluster evolution, which is indicated by the Ikeda diagram, can be described by the evolution of the container.
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