This book provides the first graduatelevel, selfcontained introduction to recent developments that lead to the formulation of the configurationinteraction approach for open quantum systems, the Gamow shell model, which provides a unitary description of quantum manybody system in different regimes of binding, and enables the unification in the description of nuclear structure and reactions. The Gamow shell model extends and generalizes the phenomenologically successful nuclear shell model to the domain of weaklybound nearthreshold states and resonances, offering a systematic tool to understand and categorize data on nuclear spectra, moments, collective excitations, particle and electromagnetic decays, clustering, elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, and radiative capture cross sections of interest to astrophysics. The approach is of interest beyond nuclear physics and based on general properties of quasistationary solutions of the Schrdinger equation socalled Gamow states. For the benefit of graduate students and newcomers to the field, the quantummechanical fundamentals are introduced in some detail. The text also provides a historical overview of how the field has evolved from the early days of the nuclear shell model to recent experimental developments, in both nuclear physics and related fields, supporting the unified description. The text contains many worked examples and several numerical codes are introduced to allow the reader to test different aspects...

Binding: Paperback;520 pages; Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.; Classification: PHM; Weight: 906 g; Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 33

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