Meaning of antistretching | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterized by a decrease of the quadrupole deformation.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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