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We have investigated the stability limits of small spin-polarized clusters consisting of up to ten spin-polarized tritium T$\downarrow$ atoms and the mixtures of T$\downarrow$ with spin-polarized deuterium D$\downarrow$ and hydrogen…
We report ground state energies and structural properties for small helium clusters (4He) containing an H- impurity computed by means of variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods. Except for 4He_2H- that has a noticeable contribution…
This work expands recent investigations in the field of spin-polarized tritium (T$\downarrow$) clusters . We report the results for the ground state energy and structural properties of large T$\downarrow$ cl usters consisting of up to 320…
In this work we investigate small clusters of helium atoms using the hyperspherical harmonic basis. We consider systems with $A=2,3,4,5,6$ atoms with an inter-particle potential which does not present a strong repulsion at short distances.…
The characteristics of the four $^4$He atom cluster are investigated using the differential equations for Yakubovsky components. Binding energy, mean-square radius and density function are calculated for the ground state.The spatial…
Ground state of weakly bound dimers and trimers with a radius extending well into the classically forbidden region is explored, with the goal to test the predicted universality of quantum halo states. The focus of the study are molecules…
Ground state energies for confined hydrogen (H) and helium (He) atoms, inside a penetrable/impenetrable compartment have been calculated using Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method. Specifically, we have investigated spherical and ellipsoidal…
Precise numerical calculations of bound states of a three-atomic Helium cluster are performed. The modern techniques of solution of Faddeev equations are combined to obtain an efficient numerical scheme. Binding energies and other…
We report a variational calculation of ground state energies and radii for 4He_N droplets (3 \leq N \leq 40), using the atom-atom interaction HFD-B(HE). The trial wave function has a simple structure, combining two- and three-body…
We present a mathematically rigorous method for solving three-atomic bound state and scattering problems. The method is well suited for applications in systems where the inter-atomic interaction is of a hard-core nature. It has been…
We study few-body problems in mixed dimensions with $N \ge 2$ heavy atoms trapped individually in parallel one-dimensional tubes or two-dimensional disks, and a single light atom travels freely in three dimensions. By using the…
The ground and excited state properties of small helium clusters, 4He_N, containing nanoscale (~3-10 Angstroms) planar aromatic molecules have been studied with quantum Monte Carlo methods. Ground state structures and energies are obtained…
We present an extensive study of the static and dynamic properties of systems of spin-polarized tritium atoms. In particular, we calculate the two-body |F,m_F>=|0,0> s-wave scattering length and show that it can be manipulated via a…
Using many-body perturbation theory and coupled-cluster theory, we calculate the ground-state energy of He-4 and O-16. We perform these calculations using a no-core G-matrix interaction derived from a realistic nucleon-nucleon potential.…
Density functional and quantum Monte Carlo calculations challenge the existence of a unique ground state structure for certain Si clusters. For Si clusters with more than a dozen atoms the lowest ten isomers are close in energy and for some…
Small and stable drops of 3He atoms can only exist above a minimum number of particles, due to the combination of the 3He atom Fermi statistics and its light mass. An accurate estimation of this minimum number using microscopic theory has…
Since the $^4$He dimer supports only one weakly bound state with an average interatomic distance much larger than the van der Waals length and no deeply bound states, $^4$He$_N$ clusters with $N>2$ are a paradigmatic model system with which…
The problem of calculating the four--nucleon bound state properties for the case of realistic two- and three-body nuclear potentials is studied using the hyperspherical harmonic (HH) approach. A careful analysis of the convergence of…
A structural study of the smaller Li$^+$He$_n$ clusters with $n\le30$ has been carried out using different theoretical methods. The structures and the energetics of the clusters have been obtained using both classical energy minimization…
We present a comparative study of the rotational characteristics of various molecule-doped 4He clusters using quantum Monte Carlo techniques. The theoretical conclusions obtained from both zero and finite temperature Monte Carlo studies…