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It is important to develop a unified theoretical framework to describe the nuclear experiments and astrophysical observations based on the same effective nuclear interactions. Based on the so-called Skyrme pseudopotential up to…
Properties of asymmetric nuclear matter are derived from various many-body approaches. This includes phenomenological ones like the Skyrme Hartree-Fock and relativistic mean field approaches, which are adjusted to fit properties of nuclei,…
We calculate the static nucleon-antinucleon interaction potential from the modified Skyrme model with additional $B^{\mu}B_{\mu}$ term using the product ansatz. The static properties of single baryon are improved in the modified Skyrme…
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The nuclear mean-field model based on Skyrme forces or related density functionals has found wide-spread application to the description of nuclear ground states, collective vibrational excitations, and heavy-ion collisions. The code Sky3D…
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Accurate calculations of the nucleation rate $\Gamma$ for first order phase transitions are important for determining their observable consequences in particle physics and cosmology. Perturbative calculations are often used, but they are…
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Recent progresses in the description of the latter stage of nuclear fission are reported. Dynamical effects during the descent of the potential towards scission and in the formation of the fission fragments are studied with the…
We determine the nucleation rates of hard spheres using brute-force molecular dynamics simulations. We overcome nucleation barriers of up to $28 k_B T$, leading to a rigorous test of nucleation rates obtained from rare-event methods and…
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The surface energy is one of the fundamental properties nuclei, appearing in the simplest form of the semi-empirical mass formula. The surface enery has an influence on e.g. the shape of a nucleus and its ability to deform. This in turn…