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Background: Nuclear fission is a complex large-amplitude collective decay mode in heavy nuclei. Microscopic density functional studies of fission have previously concentrated on adiabatic approaches based on constrained static calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 P. M. Goddard , P. D. Stevenson , A. Rios

The microscopic approach of fission rates and neutron emission rates in compound nuclei have been applied to $^{258}$No and $^{286}$Cn. The microscopic framework is based on the finite-temperature Skyrme-Hartree-Fock+BCS calculations, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Yi Zhu , Junchen Pei

We study how the excitation energy of the fully accelerated fission fragments is built up. It is stressed that only the intrinsic excitation energy available before scission can be exchanged between the fission fragments to achieve thermal…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-03 Karl-Heinz Schmidt , Beatriz Jurado

Collisions between $^{248}$Cm and $^{48}$Ca are systematically investigated by time-dependent density functional calculations with evaporation prescription. Depending on the incident energy and impact parameter, fusion, deep-inelastic and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-27 Yoritaka Iwata , Sophia Heinz

In non-relativistic field theories, quantum fluctuations give rise to dissipative behaviour even at zero temperature. Here we use holographic methods to explore the dissipative dynamics of massive particles coupled to quantum critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 David Tong , Kenny Wong

Exploiting the similarity between the bunched single-particle energy levels of nuclei and of random distributions around the Fermi surface, pairing properties of the latter are calculated to establish statistically-based bounds on the basic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 A. A. Mamun , C. Constantinou , M. Prakash

We investigate the finite-temperature evolution of microscopic free-energy corrections in nuclear fission, focusing on pairing and shell effects near scission. The analysis is based on a finite-temperature BCS treatment combined with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 K. Pomorski , A. Augustyn , T. Cap , Y. J. Chen , M. Kowal , M. Warda , Z. G. Xiao

The dynamics of fission has been studied by solving Euler-Lagrange equation with dissipation generated through one and two body nuclear friction. The average kinetic energies of the fission fragments, prescission neutron multiplicities and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Asish K. Dhara , Kewal Krishan , Chandana Bhattacharya , Sailjananda Bhattacharya

The influence of thermal fluctuations on fermion pairing is investigated using a semiclassical treatment of fluctuations. When the average pairing gaps along with those differing by one standard deviation are used, the characteristic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 M. A. A. Mamun , C. Constantinou , M. Prakash

Quantum fluctuations are ubiquitous and play crucial roles across various scales and systems, such as the Big Bang, black hole dynamics, quantum phase transitions in microscopic many-body systems, and so on. Nuclear fission manifests as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-10 M. H. Zhou , S. Y. Chen , Z. Y. Li , M. S. Smith , Z. P. Li

We study the kinetics of the first order phase separation transition in boson-fermion cold-atom mixtures. At sufficiently low temperatures such a transition is driven by quantum fluctuations responsible for the formation of critical nuclei…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitry Solenov , Dmitry Mozyrsky

We describe the fissioning dynamics of Pu240 from a configuration in the proximity of the outer fission barrier to full scission and the formation of the fragments within an implementation of density functional theory extended to superfluid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Aurel Bulgac , Piotr Magierski , Kenneth J. Roche , Ionel Stetcu

Fluctuations of the number of condensed atoms in a finite-size, weakly interacting Bose gas confined in a box potential are investigated for temperatures up to the critical region. The canonical partition functions are evaluated using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Idziaszek , L. Zawitkowski , M. Gajda , K. Rzazewski

The transformation of an atomic nucleus into two excited fission fragments is modeled as a strongly damped evolution of the nuclear shape, until scission occurs at a small critical neck radius, at which point the mass, charge, and shape of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 M. Albertsson , B. G. Carlsson , T. Døssing , P. Möller , J. Randrup , S. Åberg

We have extended significantly the microscopic description of the fission process by examining a larger set of observables. We extract neutron and proton numbers of fission fragments, their spins and fission fragment relative orbital…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-12 Aurel Bulgac

The dependence of fission barriers on the excitation energy of the compound nucleus impacts the survival probability of superheavy nuclei synthesized in heavy-ion fusion reactions. In this work, we investigate the isentropic fission…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 J. C. Pei , W. Nazarewicz , J. A. Sheikh , A. K. Kerman

Energy dissipative processes play a key role in how quantum many-body systems dynamically evolve towards equilibrium. In closed quantum systems, such processes are attributed to the transfer of energy from collective motion to…

We study bubble-wall dynamics in cosmological first-order phase transitions in a two-scalar-field model, where the wall is formed by $\phi$ and an additional real scalar $s$ couples through a portal interaction. We evolve the coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Dongdong Wei , Zong-Kuan Guo

The evolution of the nuclear matter density distribution with excitation energy is studied within the framework of a finite-range interacting Fermi gas model and microcanonical thermodynamics in Thomas-Fermi approximation. It is found that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-07-18 J. Tõke , W. U. Schröder

A rapidly converging 4-dimensional Fourier shape parametrization is used to model the fission process of heavy nuclei. Potential energy landscapes are computed within the macroscopic-microscopic approach, on top of which the…