antipairing

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noun

Characterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.

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Meanings

nounantipairing (uncountable)
  1. uncountablenatural sciencesCharacterized by a decrease in pairing correlations.

    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.

    1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3114
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    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.

    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
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