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The heavy-ion fusion reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei are investigated with the improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) model. With a subtle consideration of the neutron skin thickness of nuclei and the symmetry potential, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ning Wang , Li Ou , Yingxun Zhang , Zhuxia Li

We present a solution of the full TDDFT eigenvalue equation in the linear response formalism exhibiting a linear-scaling computational complexity with system size, without relying on the simplifying Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA). The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Tim J. Zuehlsdorff , Nicholas D. M. Hine , Mike C. Payne , Peter D. Haynes

In this chapter, we describe three related studies of the universal physics of two-component unitary Fermi gases with resonant short-ranged interactions. First we discuss an ab initio auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo technique for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-21 Aurel Bulgac , Michael McNeil Forbes , Piotr Magierski

The density-functional (DF) theory provides a simple method for calculating the properties of an interacting system under an external potential by associating it with a corresponding non-interacting system. Here, we find some relations in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Junzo Chihara , Mitsuru Yamagiwa

We present background concepts of the nuclear density functional theory (DFT) and applications of the time-dependent DFT with the Skyrme energy functional for nuclear response functions. Practical methods for numerical applications of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 T. Nakatsukasa , S. Ebata , P. Avogadro , L. Guo , T. Inakura , K. Yoshida

Near-degenerate electronic structures remain a major challenge for conventional single-reference density functional theory (DFT). To address this problem, we propose time-dependent $\Delta$SCF (TD$\Delta$SCF), a novel linear-response scheme…

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Molecular-level understanding of the interactions between the constituents of an atomic structure is essential for designing novel materials in various applications. This need goes beyond the basic knowledge of the number and types of…

A survey on the dynamical and thermodynamical properties of plasmas with strong Coulomb interactions in the quasi-classical density-temperature region is given. First the basic theoretical concepts describing nonideality are discussed. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Ebeling , J. Ortner

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is able to reproduce the saturation properties of nuclear matter, as well as properties of finite nuclei. Consequently, the DFT calculations are applicable to nuclei across a wide range of masses on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Kota Yoshinaga , Noritaka Shimizu , Takashi Nakatsukasa

For the first time, the precise data on the above barrier fusion (capture) cross-sections for the reactions involving spherical colliding nuclei are quantitatively analyzed using the relativistic mean-field effective interaction. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-29 Maria Chushnyakova , Igor Gontchar , Natalya Khmyrova

The global observable distributions of nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energy are studied. It is shown that these distributions are sensitive to interaction dynamics and can be used to investigate the evolution of dense nuclear matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-15 M. V. Savina , S. V. Shmatov , N. V. Slavin , P. I. Zarubin

Most applications of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) use the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA) for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential Vxc(r,t). An exact (i.e., nonadiabatic) extension of the…

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Direct simulation of the von Neumann dynamics for a general (pure or mixed) quantum state can often be expensive. One prominent example is the real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT), a widely used framework for the…

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A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…

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A density functional theory (DFT) framework is presented that links functional derivatives of free-energy functionals to non-linear static density response functions in quantum many-body systems. Within this framework, explicit expressions…

The electronic and magnetic properties of many strongly-correlated systems are controlled by a limited number of states, located near the Fermi level and well isolated from the rest of the spectrum. This opens a formal way for combining the…

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The validity of small damping approximation (SDA) for the quasi-classical description of the averaged properties of nuclei at high temperatures is studied within the framework of collisional kinetic theory. The isoscalar collective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-13 V. M. Kolomietz , S. V. Lukyanov , S. Shlomo

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used methods for "ab initio" calculations of the structure of atoms, molecules, crystals, surfaces, and their interactions. Unfortunately, the customary introduction to DFT is often…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-12-07 Nathan Argaman , Guy Makov

Warm dense matter (WMD) describes an intermediate phase, between condensed matter and classical plasmas, found in natural and man-made systems. In a laboratory setting, WDM needs to be created dynamically. It is typically laser or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Alexander J. White , Lee A. Collins , Katarina Nichols , S. X. Hu