Structure of many-body continuum states in the proximity of exceptional points

TL;DR

This paper investigates the presence of exceptional points in the many-body scattering continuum of atomic nuclei and explores their impact on nuclear spectroscopic factors, revealing new phenomena in nuclear physics.

Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of exceptional points in nuclear many-body continua and analyzes their effects on spectroscopic factors, a novel insight in nuclear structure physics.

Findings

Exceptional points exist in nuclear many-body scattering continua.

Exceptional points significantly affect spectroscopic factors.

New phenomena observed near exceptional points in nuclei.

Abstract

We demonstrate existence of exceptional points in many-body scattering continuum of atomic nucleus and discuss their salient effects on the example of one-nucleon spectroscopic factors.