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This article comprises three sections. Section 2 starts with a review of ab initio no-core shell model calculations by Monte Carlo Shell Model. Alpha clustering arises for 8,10,12Be and 12C with Daejeon16 and JISP16 interactions, even in…

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We propose a simple quartet condensation model (QCM) which describes with very high accuracy the isovector pairing correlations in self-conjugate nuclei. The quartets have an alpha-like structure and are formed by collective isovector…

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We propose a new method of the $\beta$-$\gamma$ constraint for quadrupole deformation in antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) to describe various cluster and shell-model structures in the ground and excited states of light nuclei. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Tadahiro Suhara , Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

Coupled mode theory (CMT) is a powerful framework for decomposing interactions between electromagnetic waves and scattering bodies into resonances and their couplings with power-carrying channels. It has widespread use in few-resonance,…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Hanwen Zhang , Owen D. Miller

We investigate both bound and resonance states in 12C embedded in a three-\alpha-cluster continuum using two distinct three-cluster microscopic models. The first one relies on the Hyperspherical Harmonics basis to enumerate the channels…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 V. S. Vasilevsky , F. Arickx , W. Vanroose , J. Broeckhove

$Background$: The $\alpha$-cluster model was successful for describing spectroscopic properties of light nuclei near the shell closures. Evidences of the $\alpha$-cluster structure in $^{94}$Mo were shown, motivating the search for the same…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 M. A. Souza , H. Miyake

Quasicentroid molecular dynamics (QCMD) is a path-integral method for approximating nuclear quantum effects in dynamics simulations, which has given promising results for gas- and condensed-phase water. Here, by simulating the infrared…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Christopher Haggard , Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam , George Trenins , Stuart C. Althorpe

The coupled cluster method (CCM) is a well-known method of quantum many-body theory, and here we present an application of the CCM to the spin-half J_1--J_2 quantum spin model with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbour interactions on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-24 Raymond F. Bishop , Damian J. J. Farnell , John B. Parkinson

In this contribution we review the algebraic cluster model (ACM) for $\alpha$-cluster nuclei with $A=4k$ nucleons and its extension to the cluster shell model (CSM) for $A=4k+x$ nuclei. Particular attention is paid to the question to what…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-12 Roelof Bijker , Omar Alejandro Díaz Caballero

The fundamental question is how the hyperon plays a role in the nuclear structure. It is of particular importance, especially in the light mass region, to verify the structure change when $\Lambda$ particle(s) is added to normal nuclei. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Naoyuki Itagaki , Emiko Hiyama

We combine the recently introduced Non-Abelian Quasi-Particle Model (NAQPM) for gluons with an ideal Fermi gas of three quark species with the aim to describe the equation of state (energy density vs. temperature) of $2+1$ - flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Eleftherios P. Politis , Antonis Tsapalis , Fotios K. Diakonos

We introduce a unified approach to nuclear bound and continuum states based on the coupling of the no-core shell model (NCSM), a bound-state technique, with the no-core shell model/resonating group method (NCSM/RGM), a nuclear scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-03 Simone Baroni , Petr Navratil , Sofia Quaglioni

The Quark-Meson-Coupling (QMC) model has been applied to the study of the properties of even-even super-heavy nuclei with 96 < Z < 110, over a wide range of neutron numbers. The aim is to identify the deformed shell gaps at N = 152 and N =…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 J. R. Stone , K. Morita , P. A. M. Guichon , A. W. Thomas

We introduce a fully antisymmetrized treatment of three-cluster dynamics within the ab initio framework of the no-core shell model/resonating-group method (NCSM/RGM). Energy-independent non-local interactions among the three nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-23 S. Quaglioni , C. Romero-Redondo , P. Navrátil

At low densities, with decreasing temperatures, in symmetric nuclear matter alpha-particles are formed, which eventually give raise to a quantum condensate with four-nucleon alpha-like correlations (quartetting). Starting with a model of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Funaki , H. Horiuchi , G. Röpke , P. Schuck , A. Tohsaki , T. Yamada

A new Quantum Monte-Carlo (QMC) approach is proposed to investigate low-lying states of nuclei within the shell model. The formalism relies on a variational symmetry-restored wave-function to guide the underlying Brownian motion. Sign/phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-20 Jérémy Bonnard , Olivier Juillet

We consider the off-lattice two-dimensional $q$-state active clock model (ACM) as a natural discretization of the Vicsek model (VM) describing flocking. The ACM consists of particles able to move in the plane in a discrete set of $q$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-10 Swarnajit Chatterjee , Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

The catastrophe theory, an effective method for the description of phase transitions, is applied to the Semimicroscopic Algebraic Cluster Model (SACM) as an example of a non-trivial theory. The ground state and excited, rotational phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 E. Lopez-Moreno , P. O. Hess , H. Yepez-Martinez

The quantum state discrimination is an important part of quantum information processing. We investigate the discrimination of coherent states through Jaynes-Cummings (JC) model interaction between the field and the ancilla without rotation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Jin-Hua Zhang , Fu-Lin Zhang , Mai-Lin Liang , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

Within the Quartet Condensation Model (QCM), the isovector pairing correlations for $N = Z$ nuclei are described with a very high accuracy by a condensate of $\alpha$-like quartets. The usual approach involves cumbersome recurrence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 V. V. Baran , D. S. Delion