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The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem addresses fundamental questions in statistical physics, and attempts to understand the origin of recurrences in the system have led to many great advances in nonlinear dynamics and mathematical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-06 Santhosh Ganapa

Since its first appearance in 1971, Gutzwiller's trace formula has been extended to systems with continuous symmetries, in which not all periodic orbits are isolated. In order to avoid the divergences occurring in connection with symmetry…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Brack

The properties of toroidal hyperheavy even-even nuclei and the role of toroidal shell structure are extensively studied within covariant density functional theory. The general trends in the evolution of toroidal shapes in the $Z\approx…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 S. E. Agbemava , A. V. Afanasjev

Semiclassical periodic orbit theory is used in many branches of physics. However, most applications of the theory have been to systems which involve only single particle dynamics. In this work, we develop a semiclassical formalism to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jamal Sakhr , Niall D. Whelan

We develop an effective surface theory for the surface states of a Weyl semimetal. This theory includes the peculiar Fermi arc states on the surface as well as leakage of the states from the surface to the bulk. Subjecting the model to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Jan Borchmann , T. Pereg-Barnea

We present a general review of the bifurcation sequences of periodic orbits in general position of a family of resonant Hamiltonian normal forms with nearly equal unperturbed frequencies, invariant under $Z_2 \times Z_2$ symmetry. The rich…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Antonella Marchesiello , Giuseppe Pucacco

We study periodic spectral problems through their connection with supersymmetric gauge theories and two-dimensional conformal field theory. To characterize the associated stability chart, we develop a novel and systematic approach for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Giulio Bonelli , Pavlo Gavrylenko , Tommaso Pedroni , Alessandro Tanzini

We implement the geometric method proposed in ([9], [3], [16]) to analytically predict the sequence of bifurcations leading to a change of stability and/or the appearance of new periodic orbits in the secular 3D planetary three body…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Rita Mastroianni , Antonella Marchesiello , Christos Efthymiopoulos , Giuseppe Pucacco

Shell effects in the coordinate space can be seen with degenerate Fermi vapors in non-uniform trapping potentials. In particular, below the Fermi temperature, the density profile of a Fermi gas in a confining harmonic potential is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 L. Salasnich , A. Parola , L. Reatto

We develop a semiclassical framework for studying quantum particles constrained to curved surfaces using the momentous quantum mechanics formalism, which extends classical phase-space to include quantum fluctuation variables (moments). In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Guillermo Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez , J. Ruvalcaba-Rascon

The present study introduce a novel approach, the Chebyshev shape parametrization, to describe the geometric configurations of atomic nuclei, with a particular emphasis on fission dynamics. In this framework, the nuclear surface is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-11 K. Jyothish , M. S. Suryan Sivadas , A. K. Rhine Kumar

The Fermi arcs of topological surface states in the three-dimensional multi-Weyl semimetals on surfaces by a continuum model are investigated systematically. We calculated analytically the energy spectra and wave function for bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Y. C. Liu , V. Wang , J. B. Lin , J. Nara

We study {{\rm C}$_{60}$} with the use of Thomas-Fermi theory. A spherical shell model is invoked to treat the nuclear potential, where the nuclear and core charges are smeared out into a shell of constant surface charge density. The…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 Dennis P. Clougherty , Xiang Zhu

We propose that effective field theories for nuclei and nuclear matter comprise of "double decimation": (1) the chiral symmetry decimation (CSD) and (2) Fermi liquid decimation (FLD). The Brown-Rho scaling recently identified as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. E. Brown , Mannque Rho

The recently developed semiclassical variational Wigner-Kirkwood (VWK) approach is applied to finite nuclei using external potentials and self-consistent mean fields derived from Skyrme interactions and from relativistic mean field theory.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 M. Centelles , P. Schuck , X. Vinas

The formation of supershells observed in large metal clusters can be qualitatively understood from a periodic-orbit-expansion for a spherical cavity. To describe the changes in the supershell structure for different materials, one has,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Erik Koch

A semiclassical model based on the solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems with a sharp moving surface has been used to study the isoscalar quadrupole and octupole collective modes in heavy spherical nuclei. Within this model, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 V. I. Abrosimov , A. Dellafiore , F. Matera

The shell corrections and shell gaps in nuclei are systematically studied with the latest Weizs\"acker-Skyrme (WS4) mass model. We find that most of asymmetric nuclei with (sub)-shell closures locate along the shell stability line (SSL),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Ning Wang , Min Liu , Xizhen Wu , Jie Meng

We investigate the evolution of families of periodic orbits in a bisymmetrical potential made up of a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator with only one quartic perturbing term, in a number of resonant cases. Our main objective is to compute…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-09 Euaggelos E. Zotos

Alternate contraction and drastic expansion, i.e., `breathing' of electronic subshells, the effects of fusion of two subshells into one subshell and its subsequent fission (splitting) into the original subshells, as well as multiple…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 V K Dolmatov