Speaker
Prof.
Nicholas Manton
(DAMTP, Cambridge University)
Description
When an important part of the dynamics of multiple particles, or fields, is described in terms of a reduced dynamics with just a few collective coordinates, then the reduced dynamics is generally characterised by a curved configuration space together with a potential function. Applications include soliton/antisoliton dynamics, coupling of soliton dynamics to internal shape modes, and oscillon dynamics. This talk will focus on nuclear dynamics for nuclei that are clusters of alpha particles. In Neon-20, an important subset of quantum states arises from dynamics on a configuration space that is a spatial wormhole, as discussed in papers written in collaboration with M. Dunajski and (very recently) R. Bai.