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Calculations of nuclear masses, using nuclear density functional theory, are presented for even-even nuclei spanning the nuclear chart. The resulting binding energy differences can be interpreted in terms of valence proton-neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Stoitsov , R. B. Cakirli , R. F. Casten , W. Nazarewicz , W. Satula

The density-functional (DF) theory provides a simple method for calculating the properties of an interacting system under an external potential by associating it with a corresponding non-interacting system. Here, we find some relations in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Junzo Chihara , Mitsuru Yamagiwa

We develop an effective field theory to describe the superfluid pairing in strongly interacting fermions with arbitrary short-range attractions, by extending Kaplan's idea of coupling fermions to a fictitious boson state in Nucl. Phys. B…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-15 Jianshen Hu , Fan Wu , Lianyi He , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu

We develop a classical density functional for water which combines the White Bear fundamental-measure theory (FMT) functional for the hard sphere fluid with attractive interactions based on the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-10 Jessica Hughes , Eric Krebs , David Roundy

We study the $^1S_0$ superfluidity of $\Lambda$ hyperons in neutron star matter and neutron stars. We use the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory to calculate the properties of neutron star matter. In the RMF approach, the meson-hyperon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. N. Wang , H. Shen

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is the tool of choice in describing properties of complex nuclei and intricate phases of bulk nucleonic matter. It is a microscopic approach based on an energy density functional representing the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 Bastian Schuetrumpf , Chunli Zhang , Witold Nazarewicz

While the theory of diffusion of a single Brownian particle in confined geometries is well-established by now, we discuss here the theoretical framework necessary to generalize the theory of diffusion to dense suspensions of strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-18 H. Löwen , M. Heinen

The superfluid drag effect, in hydrodynamics of pulsating neutron stars, is conventionally described with the aid of the entrainment matrix relating the mass currents with the velocities of superfluid flows in the system. Equations for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-17 Lev B. Leinson

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

The aim of this thesis is to systematically and consistently study strongly coupled bosonic and fermionic conformal field theories using the large quantum number expansion. The idea behind it is to study sectors of conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Ioannis Kalogerakis

Recent experiments have shown that the striking structure formation in dewetting films of evaporating colloidal nanoparticle suspensions occurs in an ultrathin `postcursor' layer that is left behind by a mesoscopic dewetting front. Various…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-04 A. J. Archer , M. J. Robbins , U. Thiele

In this chapter, we discuss recent advances and new opportunities through methods of machine learning for the field of classical density functional theory, dealing with the equilibrium properties of thermal nano- and micro-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-12 Alessandro Simon , Martin Oettel

Nuclear level density is calculated with the combinatorial method based on the relativistic density functional theory including pairing correlations. The Strutinsky method is adopted to smooth the total state density in order to refine the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Xiao-Fei Jiang , Xin-Hui Wu , Peng-Wei Zhao , Jie Meng

The notion of "paired" fermions is central to important condensed matter phenomena such as superconductivity and superfluidity. While the concept is widely used and its physical meaning is clear there exists no systematic and mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christina V. Kraus , Michael M. Wolf , J. Ignacio Cirac , Geza Giedke

A system of soft ellipsoid molecules confined between two planar walls is studied using classical Density Functional Theory (DFT). Both the isotropic and nematic phases are considered. The excess free energy is evaluated using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 David Cheung , Friederike Schmid

In electron density functional theory formal properties of density functionals play an important role in constructing and testing approximate functionals. In this paper it is shown that a set of density functionals satisfy an equation that…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-09 Daniel P. Joubert

We study the interactions between two negatively charged macroscopic surfaces confining positive counterions. A density-functional approach is introduced which, besides the usual mean-field interactions, takes into account the correlations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Diehl , M. N. Tamashiro , Marcia C. Barbosa , Yan Levin

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

With neutron star applications in mind, we developed a theory of diffusion in mixtures of superfluid, strongly interacting Fermi liquids. By employing the Landau theory of Fermi liquids, we determined matrices that relate the currents of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-03 Oleg A. Goglichidze , Mikhail E. Gusakov

We present a theoretical approach based on density functional theory supplemented by a microscopic multi-phonon model which is applied for investigations of pygmy resonances and other excitations of different multipolarities in stable and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-24 Nadia Tsoneva , Horst Lenske