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Journal Article
Emergent geometry and duality in the carbon nucleus
2023
Overview
The carbon atom provides the backbone for the complex organic chemistry composing the building blocks of life. The physics of the carbon nucleus in its predominant isotope,
12
C, is similarly full of multifaceted complexity. Here we provide a model-independent density map of the geometry of the nuclear states of
12
C using the ab initio framework of nuclear lattice effective field theory. We find that the well-known but enigmatic Hoyle state is composed of a “bent-arm” or obtuse triangular arrangement of alpha clusters. We identify all of the low-lying nuclear states of
12
C as having an intrinsic shape composed of three alpha clusters forming either an equilateral triangle or an obtuse triangle. The states with the equilateral triangle formation also have a dual description in terms of particle-hole excitations in the mean-field picture.
Carbon (
12
C) nucleus has interesting characteristics including the existence of the Hoyle state. Here the authors discuss the structure of the nuclear states of
12
C by using nuclear lattice effective field theory.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
