Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 299–302 (1999)Chaos Assisted Tunneling from Superdeformed StatesReceived 13 July 1998; published in the issue dated 11 January 1999 The tunneling process that governs the decay from superdeformed to normal-deformed nuclear states is shown to be enhanced by several orders of magnitude ( 104–106) if the normal-deformed states are chaotic at the moment of decay out. The onset of (long-range) chaos may imply that the tunneling enhancement increases with decreasing angular momentum. Experimental signatures are discussed. © 1999 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.299
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.299
PACS:
24.60.Lz, 21.10.Ma, 21.10.Re, 23.20.-g
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