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Threshold Fragmentation under Dipole Forces

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The threshold law for N-body fragmentation under dipole forces is formulated. It emerges from the energy dependence of the normalization of the correlated continuum wave function for N fragments. It is shown that the dipole threshold law plays a key role in understanding all threshold fragmentation phenomena since it links the classical threshold law for long-range Coulomb interactions to the statistical law for short-range interactions. Furthermore, a tunnelling mechanism is identified as the common feature which occurs for all three classes of interactions, short-range, dipole and Coulomb.

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Pattard, T., Rost, J.M. Threshold Fragmentation under Dipole Forces. Foundations of Physics 31, 535–541 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017573713853

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