TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental test of spontaneous correlation and anomalous sensitivity in finite highly excited many-body systems
AU - Qi, Wang
AU - Kun, Sergey Yu
AU - Wendung, Tian
AU - Songlin, Li
AU - Zhonghe, Jiang
AU - Yuchuan, Dong
AU - Zhichang, Li
AU - Xiuqin, Lu
AU - Kui, Zhao
AU - Changbo, Fu
AU - Jiancheng, Liu
AU - Hua, Jiang
AU - Guiqing, Hu
AU - Greiner, W.
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - We have tested recent suggestion of anomalous sensitivity in highly excited quantum many-body systems. Two independent measurements of cross sections for the 19F + 93Nb strongly dissipative heavy-ion collisions have been performed at incident energies from 102 to 108 MeV in steps of 250 keV. In the two measurements we used different, independently prepared, 93Nb target foils with nominally the same thickness. The data indicate statistically significant non-reproducibility of the energy oscillating yields in the two measurements. The observed non-reproducibility is consistent with recent theoretical arguments on spontaneous correlation, slow phase randomization and chaos in highly excited complex quantum systems.
AB - We have tested recent suggestion of anomalous sensitivity in highly excited quantum many-body systems. Two independent measurements of cross sections for the 19F + 93Nb strongly dissipative heavy-ion collisions have been performed at incident energies from 102 to 108 MeV in steps of 250 keV. In the two measurements we used different, independently prepared, 93Nb target foils with nominally the same thickness. The data indicate statistically significant non-reproducibility of the energy oscillating yields in the two measurements. The observed non-reproducibility is consistent with recent theoretical arguments on spontaneous correlation, slow phase randomization and chaos in highly excited complex quantum systems.
KW - Anomalous sensitivity
KW - F + Nb strongly dissipative heavy-ion collisions
KW - Finite many-body systems
KW - Slow phase randomization
KW - Spontaneous correlations
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U2 - 10.1142/S0218301303001314
DO - 10.1142/S0218301303001314
M3 - Article
SN - 0218-3013
VL - 12
SP - 377
EP - 393
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics E
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics E
IS - 3
ER -