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Nuclear physics

occurrence in one nucleus of low-lying states with distinctly different shapes, such as spherical and deformed, at similar excitation energy.

In nuclear physics, shape coexistence refers to occurrence in one nucleus of low-lying states with distinctly different shapes, such as spherical and deformed, at similar excitation energy. This meaning comes from Heyde (2011) in Reviews of Modern Physics.[1]

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References

Heyde, K., & Wood, J. L. (2011). Shape coexistence in atomic nuclei. Reviews of Modern Physics, 83(4), 1467-1521. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.83.1467

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