New Trends in Nuclear Collective Dynamics : Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics Part of the Fifth Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, Nishinomiya, Japan, October 25 and 26, 1990

"New Trends in Nuclear Collective Dynamics" emphasizes research toward understanding collective and statistical aspects of nuclear dynamics. Well-known lecturers from centers of nuclear research present reviews of recent developments. The topics covered are: -order and chaos in finite quantum systems -dissipation in heavy-ion collisions -collective motionsin warm nuclei -time-dependent mean-field theory with collision terms -nuclear fission and multi-dimensional tunneling -large-scale collective motion. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Collective Versus Statistical Aspects of Nuclear Motion * ....Pages 1-10 Tests of Fundamental Symmetries in Compound-Nucleus Scattering * ....Pages 11-20 Chaos in Nuclei....Pages 21-30 Ericson Fluctuations Versus Conductance Fluctuations: Similarities and Differences....Pages 31-40 Hot Nuclei - Landau Theory, Thermal Fluctuations and Dissipation....Pages 41-91 Dissipation and Thermal Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collisions....Pages 93-123 Multi-Dimensional Tunneling and Nuclear Fission....Pages 125-141 Phase-Space Dynamics of Heavy-Ion Reactions....Pages 143-176 Quantum Chaology: Our Knowledge and Ignorance....Pages 177-181 True Quantum Chaos? An Instructive Example....Pages 183-186 Toward the Fundamental Theory of Nuclear Matter Physics: The Microscopic Theory of Nuclear Collective Dynamics....Pages 187-218 Mean Field Dynamics and Low-Lying Collective Excitations....Pages 219-238 Rotational Motion in Warm Atomic Nuclei....Pages 239-253 Collectivity and Chaoticity in Nuclear Dynamics....Pages 255-296 Back Matter....Pages 297-297