SMALL DROPS OF SATURATING FLUIDS

J. Treiner (1)

1 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay

We present a semiclassical study of the breakdown of the leptodermous character of drops of quantum saturating fluids. A comparison is made between liquid 4He, 3He and nuclear matter. We discuss the size of the smallest bound drop in connection with the statistics obeyed by the particles and the structure of the bulk energy density. The existence of metastable fermionic systems with positive energy and negative chemical potential is also investigated.

Domaines: Articles anciens; Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

J. Treiner. SMALL DROPS OF SATURATING FLUIDS. International Workshop on Semiclassical and Phase Space Approaches to the Dynamics of the Nucleus, 1987, Aussois, France. pp.C2-107-C2-116, ⟨10.1051/jphyscol:1987217⟩. ⟨jpa-00226482⟩