Entropy Production and Fractal Dimensions in Heavy Ion Nuclear Reaction at Intermediate Energies

The characteristics of the nonlinear dynamics in the Heavy Ion Collision (HIC) at intermediate energies have been studied by evaluating the productions of the Generalized Entropy (GE) and the Multifragmentation Entropy (ME) as well as the features of the information and fractal dimensions within the Isospin Quantum Molecular Dynamical Model compensated by the lattice methods. Results demonstrate from various views that the existence of deterministic chaos in the dynamical process of reaction.

• Entropy Production
• Fractal Dimensions
• Chaotic Behavior
• Heavy Ion Nuclear Collision
• Intermediate Energy

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province under Grant No. 20JR5RA497.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

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