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To make best use of multi-faceted astronomical and nuclear data-sets, probability distributions of neutron star models that can be used to propagate errors consistently from one domain to another are required. We take steps toward a…

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Correlations between the thickness of the neutron skin in finite nuclei and the nuclear matter symmetry energy are studied in the Skyrme Hartree-Fock model. From the most recent analysis of the isospin diffusion data in heavy-ion collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li

The neutron-proton Fermi-energy difference and the correlation to nucleon separation energies for some magic nuclei are investigated with the Skyrme energy density functionals and nuclear masses, with which the nuclear symmetry energy at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-28 Ning Wang , Li Ou , Min Liu

The Skyrme energy density functional has been applied to the study of heavy-ion fusion reactions. The barriers for fusion reactions are calculated by the Skyrme energy density functional with proton and neutron density distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Min Liu , Ning Wang , Zhuxia Li , Xizhen Wu , Enguang Zhao

Through ensemble learning with multitasking and complex connection neural networks, we aggregated nuclear properties, including ground state charge radii, binding energies, and single-particle state information obtained from the Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Zu-Xing Yang , Xiao-Hua Fan , Zhi-Pan Li , Haozhao Liang

The distribution of absorbed dose in radionuclide therapy with Lu$^{177}$ can be approximated by convolving an image of the time-integrated activity distribution with a dose voxel kernel representing different tissue types. This fast but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Luciano Melodia

A state-of-the-art approach for calculating the finite nuclear size correction to atomic energy levels and the bound-electron $g$ factor is introduced and demonstrated for a series of highly charged hydrogen-like ions. Firstly,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Igor A. Valuev , Zoltán Harman , Christoph H. Keitel , Natalia S. Oreshkina

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

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Background: Saturation of nuclear density is a fundamental property of atomic nuclei but in reality, the nuclear internal density distribution is not uniform, e.g., some nuclei are known to have the so-called bubble structure, in which the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Shuichiro Ebata , Wataru Horiuchi

The phenomenological Skyrme energy density functional theory is one of the most popular theories for dealing with finite nuclei and infinite nuclear matter, including neutron star matter. However, the density dependence of the effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-06 Mingya Duan , Michael Urban

We study the bulk deformation properties of the Skyrme nuclear energy density functionals. Following simple arguments based on the leptodermous expansion and liquid drop model, we apply the nuclear density functional theory to assess the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 N. Nikolov , N. Schunck , W. Nazarewicz , M. Bender , J. Pei

During training, the weights of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) are optimized from a random initialization towards a nearly optimum value minimizing a loss function. Only this final state of the weights is typically kept for testing, while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Gianni Franchi , Andrei Bursuc , Emanuel Aldea , Severine Dubuisson , Isabelle Bloch

The distribution of electric charge in atomic nuclei is fundamental to our understanding of the complex nuclear dynamics and a quintessential observable to validate nuclear structure models. We explore a novel approach that combines…

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We propose a neural-network-based variational framework for nuclear Density Functional Theory based on the extended Thomas--Fermi (ETF) model, in which proton and neutron number densities are represented by multilayer perceptrons and…

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The neutron skin thickness of nuclei is a sensitive probe of the nuclear symmetry energy having multiple implications for nuclear and astrophysical studies. However, precision measurements of this observable are difficult. The analysis of…

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Physics-informed neural networks approach the approximation of differential equations by directly incorporating their structure and given conditions in a loss function. This enables conditions like, e.g., invariants to be easily added…

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We develop a new method for regularising neural networks. We learn a probability distribution over the activations of all layers of the model and then insert imputed values into the network during training. We obtain a posterior for an…

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The nuclear $\alpha$ decay of heavy nuclei is investigated based on the nuclear energy density functional, which leads to the $\alpha$ potential inside the parent nucleus in terms of the proton and neutron density profiles of the daughter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Yeunhwan Lim , Yongseok Oh

Our community has greatly improved the efficiency of deep learning applications, including by exploiting sparsity in inputs. Most of that work, though, is for inference, where weight sparsity is known statically, and/or for specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhangxiaowen Gong , Houxiang Ji , Christopher Fletcher , Christopher Hughes , Josep Torrellas

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a variety of tasks, but their brittleness to distributional shifts remains a significant barrier to real-world deployment. In this paper, we propose a framework to analyse and…

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