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We investigate positron annihilation in electron liquid as a case study for many-body theory, in particular the optimized Fermi Hypernetted Chain (FHNC-EL) method. We examine several approximation schemes and show that one has to go up to…
A mathematical framework is constructed for the sum of the lowest N eigenvalues of a potential. Exactness is illustrated on several model systems (harmonic oscillator, particle in a box, and Poschl-Teller well). Its order-by-order…
Despite its very short lifetime positronium provides us with a number of accurate tests of the bound state QED. In this note a brief overview of QED theory and precision experiments on the spectrum and annihilation decay of the positronium…
Four theoretical approaches to calculate momentum densities of electron-positron annihilation pairs (MDAP) in crystalline solids are confronted with 3D densities reconstructed from two-dimensional angular correlation (2D-ACAR) data for…
Composite optimization offers a powerful modeling tool for a variety of applications and is often numerically solved by means of proximal gradient methods. In this paper, we consider fully nonconvex composite problems under only local…
We consider a stationary Poisson hyperplane process with given directional distribution and intensity in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Generalizing the zero cell of such a process, we fix a convex body $K$ and consider the intersection…
Relativistic corrections to the positronium decay rate are calculated. They are close to $40(\alpha /\pi)^2$ and $46(\alpha /\pi)^2$ for singlet and triplet states respectively.
$\gamma$-ray spectra for positron annihilation with the core and valence electrons of the noble gas atoms Ar, Kr and Xe is calculated within the framework of diagrammatic many-body theory. The effect of positron-atom and short-range…
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We report that the solids with narrow valence bands cannot be described by the local density approximation with the gradient corrections in the density functional theory as well as the X$_\alpha$ method. In particular, in the case of…
This paper establishes expectation and variance asymptotics for statistics of the Poisson--Voronoi approximation of general sets, as the underlying intensity of the Poisson point process tends to infinity. Statistics of interest include…
We present quasi-exact ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the partial static density responses and local field factors of hydrogen in the warm dense matter regime, from solid density conditions to the strongly compressed…
High-order perturbative corrections to positronium decays and hyperfine splitting are briefly reviewed. Theoretical predictions are compared to the most recent experimental data. Perspectives of future calculations are discussed.
A.V.Pushkin's approach based on conformal geometrodynamics (CGD) to calculation of quantitative relations between physical quantities is presented and analyzed. In the simplest cases of the stationary solutions to the CGD equations the…
Gradients have been exploited in proposal distributions to accelerate the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms on discrete distributions. However, these methods require a natural differentiable extension of the target discrete…
A method is proposed to manipulate the annihilation dynamics of a dense gas of positronium atoms employing superradiance and subradiance regimes of the cooperative spontaneous emission of the system. The annihilation dynamics is controlled…
Recent works by Bot-Fadili-Nguyen (arXiv:2510.22715) and by Jang-Ryu (arXiv:2510.23513) resolve long-standing iterate convergence questions for accelerated (proximal) gradient methods. In particular, Bot-Fadili-Nguyen prove weak convergence…
The annihilation parameters of positrons with electrons in different shells of Argon, Iron and Copper atoms are calculated below the positronium (Ps) formation thresholds. Quite accurate ab initio calculations of the bound state…
One of the standard generalized-gradient approximations (GGAs) in use in modern electronic-structure theory, PBE, and a recently proposed modification designed specifically for solids, PBEsol, are identified as particular members of a…
We derive and analyze new diffusion approximations of stationary distributions of Markov chains that are based on second- and higher-order terms in the expansion of the Markov chain generator. Our approximations achieve a higher degree of…