antipairing

English

Noun

antipairing (uncountable)

1. (physics) Characterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.

   Coordinate term: antistretching

   • 1973, Jan de Boer, H. J. Mang, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Munich, August 27-September 1, 1973: Invited papers, page 113:

     The second sample I would like to mention concerns the variation of intrinsic states while rotating a nucleus faster and faster, that is, the so-called antistretching and antipairing effects.

   • 1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3114:

     It is shown that there is a clear decrease of the pairing correlations (antipairing) and a decrease of the quadrupole deformation (antistretching) with increasing angular momentum.