摘要
With the establishment of secondary beam facilities at many laboratories around the world, one can investi-gate the properties of nuclei very far from the β stability line and isospin degrees of freedom in nuclear reactions at wide energy ranges. It is also possible to explore the chemical instability of hot and isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter. A better agreement with the experimental data has been found in our recent study by means of an isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (IQMD) mode. Recently experiments really reported the isospin dependence of multifragment production in reactions of ^58Fe+^58Fe and ^58Ni+^58Ni at higher incident energ.y; These phenomena may be related to the chemical instability in HIC induced by neutron-rich nuclei and therefore it is a challenge for theoretical and experimental nuclear physicists to investigate the chemical instability in heavv ion collisions.
