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Explosive astrophysical systems - such as supernovae or compact star binary mergers - provide conditions where exotic degrees of freedom can be populated. Within the covariant density functional theory of nuclear matter we build several…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-05 Adriana R. Raduta

The electron density, its gradient, and the Kohn-Sham orbital kinetic energy density are the local ingredients of a meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA). We construct a meta-GGA density functional for the exchange-correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-20 Jianmin Tao , John P. Perdew , Viktor N. Staroverov , Gustavo E. Scuseria

Experimental nuclear level densities at excitation energies below the neutron threshold follow closely a constant-temperature shape. This dependence is unexpected and poorly understood. In this work, a fundamental explanation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-06 L. G. Moretto , A. C. Larsen , F. Giacoppo , M. Guttormsen , S. Siem , A. V. Voinov

For nuclear level densities, a modification of an enhanced generalized superfluid model with different collective state enhancement factors is studied. An effect of collective states on forming the temperature is taken into account. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-27 Vladimir Plujko , Oleksandr Gorbachenko , Boris Bondar , Evgeniy Rovenskykh

A mean-field density-functional model for three-phase equilibria in fluids (or other soft condensed matter) with two spatially varying densities is analyzed analytically and numerically. The interfacial tension between any two out of three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 Kenichiro Koga , Joseph O. Indekeu

In nonadditive systems, like small systems or like long-range interacting systems even in the thermodynamic limit, ensemble inequivalence can be related to the occurrence of negative response functions, this in turn being connected with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-13 Alessandro Campa , Lapo Casetti , Ivan Latella , Agustín Pérez-Madrid , Stefano Ruffo

A statistical theory of the mean field is developed. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction, obtained after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari

The standard relativistic mean-field model is extended by including dynamical effects that arise in the coupling of single-nucleon motion to collective surface vibrations. A phenomenological scheme, based on a linear ansatz for the energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Vretenar , T Niksic , P. Ring

A method to extract primary $\gamma$-ray spectra from particle-$\gamma$ coincidences at excitation energies up to the neutron binding energy is described. From these spectra, the level density and $\gamma$-ray strength function can be…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Guttormsen , M. Hjorth-Jensen , J. Rekstad , S. Siem , A. Schiller , A. Voinov

The only way neutron matter can couple to the electromagnetic field is through an anomalous coupling, which plays an important role in the thermodynamics of pure neutron matter. Such theories are, however, perturbatively non-renormalisable,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-08 J. P. W. Diener , F. G. Scholtz

Two-particle correlations based on the multiplicity of selected isobars are found to be sensitive to the parameterization of the fragments' binding energies and the breakup volume assumed in the model calculations. The properties of these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 S. R. Souza , R. Donangelo

The various thermodynamic functions dependence on degree of energy band occupation and temperature was studied. The one-band tight binding approximation for the electron energy spectrum was used. The Fermi energy, density of states,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-11 B. V. Karpenko , A. V. Kuznetzov , V. V. Dyakin

A covariant hyper-nuclear energy density functional (EDF) is derived from in medium nucleon meson vertex functionals, assuring the proper description of nuclear mean-field dynamics. The fundamental SU(3) coupling constants for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Horst Lenske , Madhumita Dhar

Using the Hugenholtz-Van Hove theorem, we derive general expressions for the quadratic and quartic symmetry energies in terms of single-nucleon potentials in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. These analytical relations are useful for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Chang Xu , Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko

A theoretical framework is proposed for an energy decomposition scheme along the reaction coordinate, in which the ensemble average of the potential energy weighted with reactive flux intensity is decomposed into energy components at the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Wenjin Li

We develop a statistical theory of the mean field. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction are random with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari

The hot nucleus $^{171}$Yb is investigated by the covariant density functional theory with the PC-PK1 effective interaction. The thermodynamic quantities are evaluated with the canonical ensemble theory. The pairing correlations is treated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-05 Tao Yan , Yanlong Lin , Lang Liu

We study relationships between properties of collective excitations in finite nuclei and the phase transition density $n_t$ and pressure $P_t$ at the inner edge separating the liquid core and the solid crust of a neutron star. A theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Paar , Ch. C. Moustakidis , T. Marketin , D. Vretenar , G. A. Lalazissis

Nucleus-nucleus interaction potentials in heavy-ion fusion reactions are extracted from the microscopic time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory. When the center-of-mass energy is much higher than the Coulomb barrier energy, extracted potentials…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Kouhei Washiyama , Denis Lacroix

Microscopic energy density functionals (EDF) have become a standard tool for nuclear structure calculations, providing an accurate global description of nuclear ground states and collective excitations. For spectroscopic applications this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 K. Nomura , T. Niksic , T. Otsuka , N. Shimizu , D. Vretenar