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Cluster structures of $^{14}$C were investigated with a method of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) combined with a $3\alpha+nn$ cluster model while focusing on the monopole excitations and linear-chain $3\alpha$ band. Variation…
The 2$\alpha+t$ cluster structure in $^{11}$B is investigated by the microscopic generator coordinate method (GCM) with the Brink cluster wave functions. With a proper choice of the parameters of the effective interaction, the calculated…
The Semimicroscopic Algebraic Cluster Model (SACM) is applied to 12C as a system of three alpha- clusters. The microscopic model space, which observes the Pauli-Exclusion-Principle (PEP), is constructed. It is shown that the 12C nucleus can…
The 1/2$^-$ resonant states in $^{13}{\rm C}$ are investigated to search for the Hoyle-analog state. In order to treat the resonance states located around the 3$\alpha+n$ threshold, the analytic continuation in the coupling constant (ACCC)…
The fermionic molecular dynamics approach uses Gaussian wave packets as single-particle basis states. Many-body basis states are Slater determinants projected on parity, angular momentum and total linear momentum. The wave-packet basis is…
A container picture is proposed for understanding cluster dynamics where the clusters make nonlocalized motion occupying the lowest orbit of the cluster mean-field potential characterized by the size parameter $``B"$ in the THSR…
For more than half a century, the structure of $^{12}$C, such as the ground band, has been understood to be well described by the three $\alpha$ cluster model based on a geometrical crystalline picture. On the contrary, recently it has been…
The present understanding of the structure of the Hoyle state in 12C is reviewed. Most of the theoretical approaches to the Hoyle state are shortly summarized. The corresponding results are analyzed with respect to whether they give…
The first $3^-$ and $4^-$ states of $^{12}$C are studied in the present container model, in which the shift parameter is introduced to break the parity symmetry for projecting out the negative-parity states. Taking the limit as the shift…
The first $0^+$ resonant state of the $^{12}$C nucleus ${}^{12}$C$(0_2^+)$, so called the Hoyle state, is investigated in a three-$\alpha$-particle (3-$\alpha$) model. A wave function for the photodisintegration reaction of a $^{12}$C bound…
The alpha cluster states of 16C are investigated by using the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. It is shown that two different types of alpha cluster states exist: triangular and linear-chain states. The former has an approximate…
We investigate excited states of $^{18}$O by using the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. It is found that five different types of cluster states exist which we call ${}^{14}{\rm C}+\alpha$, higher-nodal ${}^{14}{\rm C}+\alpha$, two…
We study nature of the low-lying resonance states in mirror nuclei $^{9}$Be and $^{9}$B. Investigations are performed within a three-cluster model. The model makes use of the hyperspherical harmonics, which provides convenient description…
To test a multicluster approach for halo nuclei, we give a unified description for the ground states of $^6$He and $^8$He in a model comprising an $\alpha$ cluster and single-neutron clusters. The intercluster wave function is taken a…
The nonlocalized aspect of clustering, which is a new concept for self-conjugate nuclei, is extended for the investigation of the N{\not=}Z nucleus ${}^9$Be. A modified version of the THSR (Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-R\"opke) wave function is…
We report an investigation of the structure of $^{12}$C nucleus employing a newly developed configuration-mixing method. In the three-dimensional coordinate-space representation, we generate a number of Slater determinants with various…
We show for the first time that the low-spin ($J \le 4^+$) six-$\alpha$ condensate candidate states in $^{24}$Mg, recently reported by Fujikawa et al. [Phys. Lett. B 848, 138384 (2024)], are well described by the superfluid $\alpha$-cluster…
The existence of a rotational band with the $\alpha$+$^{12}$C($0_2^+$) cluster structure, in which three $\alpha$ particles in $^{12}$C($0_2^+$) are locally condensed, is demonstrated near the four-$\alpha$ threshold of $^{16}$O in…
To clarify the effects of $\alpha$-cluster breaking on 3$\alpha$ cluster structures in $^{12}$C, we investigate $^{12}$C using a hybrid model that combines the Brink-Bloch cluster model with the $p_{3/2}$ subshell closure wave function. We…
We have studied gas-like states of $\alpha$ clusters around an $^{16}$O core in $^{24}$Mg based on a microscopic $\alpha$-cluster model. This study was performed by introducing a Monte Carlo technique for the description of the THSR…