Bifurcation and fission in the liquid drop model: A phase-field approach
Bifurcation and fission in the liquid drop model: A phase-field approach
The liquid drop model, originally used to model atomic nuclei, describes the competition between surface tension and Coulomb force. To help understand how a ball loses stability and becomes prone to fission, we calculate the minimum energy path of the fission process and study the bifurcation branch conjectured by Bohr …