238U FISSION NEAR THE THRESHOLD

Using the data on angular distribution of fission fragments, a threshold has been determined in a dipole fission channel with J = 1 spin projection to the nucleus symmetry axis. It has been shown that the peak observed in the 238U fission cross section is determined by the contribution from the quadrupole excitation.

Semiclassical Modeling of Isotropic Non-Heisenberg Magnets for Spin and Linear Quadrupole Excitation Dynamics

Equations describing one-dimensional non-Heisenberg model are studied by use of generalized coherent states in real parameterization, and then dissipative spin wave equation for dipole and quadrupole branches is obtained if there is a small linear excitation from the ground state. Finally, it is shown that for such exchange-isotropy Hamiltonians, optical branch of spin wave is nondissipative.

Quadrupole Excitation in Tunnel Splitting Oscillation in Nanoparticle

We analyze the interference between tunneling paths that occur for a spin system with special Hamiltonian both for dipole and quadrupole excitations. Using an instanton approach, we find that as the strength of the second-order transverse anisotropy is increased, the tunnel splitting for both excitations is modulated, with zeros occurring periodically and the number of quenching points for quadrupole excitation decreasing. This effect results from the interference of four tunneling paths connecting easy-axis spin orientations and occurs in the absence of any magnetic field.