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Octupole vibrations are studied in some doubly magic nuclei using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory with a Skyrme energy density functional. Through the use of the linear response theory, the energies and transition amplitudes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-07 C. Simenel , J. Buete , K. Vo-Phuoc

There is no microscopic quantum approach based on the many-body time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation which capable to describe the formation and the evolution of a compound nucleus. The most advanced microscopic approach developed so far…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 Matthew Kafker , Aurel Bulgac

Computing excited states of many-body quantum Hamiltonians is a fundamental challenge in computational physics and chemistry, with state-of-the-art methods broadly classified into variational (critical point search) and linear response…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Laura Grazioli , Yukuan Hu , Eric Cancès

After a brief review of the theoretical description of nuclei based on nonrelativistic many-body theory and realistic hamiltonians, these lectures focus on its application to the analysis of the electroweak response. Special emphasis is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Omar Benhar

We carried out a simulation of heavy ion collision using a time-dependent density functional theory. We call it the canonical-basis time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory (Cb-TDHFB) which can describe nuclear dynamics in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Shuichiro Ebata

The exchange part of energy density of the linear Dirac--Hartree--Fock (DHF) model in symmetric nuclear matter is evaluated in a parameter--free closed form and expressed as density functional. After the rearranging terms the relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 S. Gmuca , K. Petrik , J. Leja

Background: Nuclear fission is a complex large-amplitude collective decay mode in heavy nuclei. Microscopic density functional studies of fission have previously concentrated on adiabatic approaches based on constrained static calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 P. M. Goddard , P. D. Stevenson , A. Rios

Recent experiments revealed intriguing similarities in the $^{64}$Ni+$^{207}$Pb, $^{132}$Xe+$^{208}$Pb, and $^{238}$U+$^{238}$U reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The experimental data indicate that for all systems…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Kazuyuki Sekizawa , Sophia Heinz

Employing the stochastic mean-field (SMF) approach, we develop a quantal diffusion description of the multi-nucleon transfer in heavy-ion collisions at finite impact parameters. The quantal transport coefficients are determined by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 S. Ayik , B. Yilmaz , O. Yilmaz , A. S. Umar

In this work, we present the first extension of the Many-Body Forces (MBF) Model to finite temperature. The MBF Model describes nuclear matter in a relativistic quantum hadrodynamics formalism that takes many-body forces into account…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Rafael Bán Jacobsen , Ricardo Luciano Sonego Farias , Veronica Dexheimer

In this manuscript we provide an outline of the numerical methods used in implementing the density constrained time-dependent Hartree-Fock (DC-TDHF) method and provide a few examples of its application to nuclear fusion. In this approach,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-16 V. E. Oberacker , A. S. Umar

The study of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) over the past quarter century has had relatively little impact on the traditional approach to the low-energy nuclear many-body problem. Recent developments are changing this situation. New…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Furnstahl

Nuclear fission presents a unique example of quantum entanglement in strongly interacting many-body systems. A heavy nucleus can split into hundreds of combinations of two complementary fragments in the fission process. The entanglement of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Yu Qiang , Junchen Pei , Kyle Godbey

Real-time computation of time-dependent quantum mechanical problems are presented for nuclear many-body problems. Quantum tunneling in nuclear fusion at low energy is described using a time-dependent wave packet. A real-time method of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 Takashi Nakatsukasa

The relativistic mean-field theory provides a framework in which the nuclear many-body problem is described as a self-consistent system of nucleons and mesons. In the mean-field approximation, the self-consistent time evolution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Vretenar

In recent years many-body perturbation theory encountered a renaissance in the field of ab initio nuclear structure theory. In various applications it was shown that perturbation theory, including novel flavors of it, constitutes a useful…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Alexander Tichai , Robert Roth , Thomas Duguet

We present the basic concepts and our recent developments in the density functional approaches with the Skyrme functionals for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy. The time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is utilized for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 Takashi Nakatsukasa

Correlations in the nuclear wave-function beyond the mean-field or Hartree-Fock approximation are very important to describe basic properties of nuclear structure. Various approaches to account for such correlations are described and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. Müther , A. Polls

It is often assumed that few- and many-body systems can be accurately described by considering only pairwise two-body interactions of the constituents. We illustrate that three- and higher-body forces enter naturally in effective field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-08 H. -W. Hammer , A. Nogga , A. Schwenk

Quantal diffusion mechanism of nucleon exchange is studied in the central collisions of several symmetric heavy-ion collisions in the framework of the Stochastic Mean-Field (SMF) approach. Since at bombarding energies below the fusion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 S. Ayik , O. Yilmaz , B. Yilmaz , A. S. Umar