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Using an energy density functional (EDF) based on the thermodynamic Gibbs-Duhem relation, found equivalent to the standard Skyrme EDF for infinite nuclear matter, it is demonstrated that the parameters of this EDF are not uniquely…

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Considering the effects of charge screening, we propose a new numerical recipe within the framework of Thomas-Fermi approximation, where the properties of nuclear matter throughout a vast density range can be obtained self-consistently.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-19 Cheng-Jun Xia , Bao Yuan Sun , Toshiki Maruyama , Wen-Hui Long , Ang Li

Machine learning is employed to build an energy density functional for self-bound nuclear systems for the first time. By learning the kinetic energy as a functional of the nucleon density alone, a robust and accurate orbital-free density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-21 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

We aim to develop a nuclear energy density functional that can be simultaneously applied to finite nuclei and neutron stars. We use the self-consistent nuclear density functional theory (DFT) with Skyrme energy density functionals and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-28 J. Erler , C. J. Horowitz , W. Nazarewicz , M. Rafalski , P. -G. Reinhard

Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) has been used when studying atoms, molecules and solids. In nuclear physics, there has been basically no application of OF-DFT so far, as the Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been widely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-03 Gianluca Colo' , Kouichi Hagino

The equation of state (EOS) in the limit of infinite symmetric nuclear matter exhibits an equilibrium density, $n_0 \approx 0.16 \, \mathrm{fm}^{-3}$, at which the pressure vanishes and the energy per particle attains its minimum, $E_0…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 C. Drischler , P. G. Giuliani , S. Bezoui , J. Piekarewicz , F. Viens

We study the order-by-order expansion of the energy per particle of asymmetric nuclear matter up to twice saturation density in chiral effective field theory (EFT) within a Bayesian framework. For this, we develop a two-dimensional Gaussian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 H. Göttling , L. Hoff , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

In spite of numerous scientific and practical applications, there is still no comprehensive theoretical description of the nuclear fission process based solely on protons, neutrons and their interactions. The most advanced simulations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 N. Schunck , K. R. Quinlan , J. Bernstein

The present study aims at further development of covariant energy density functionals (CEDFs) towards more accurate description of binding energies across the nuclear chart. For the first time, infinite basis corrections to binding energies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 B. Osei , A. V. Afanasjev , A. Taninah , A. Dalbah , U. C. Perera , V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum

Nuclear density functional theory provides a unified description of finite nuclei and bulk nuclear matter, and is widely used to model the neutron star equation of state. However, extrapolations to supra-saturation densities require a…

Nuclear structure models built from phenomenological mean fields, the effective nucleon-nucleon interactions (or Lagrangians), and the realistic bare nucleon-nucleon interactions are reviewed. The success of covariant density functional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-14 Shihang Shen , Haozhao Liang , Wen Hui Long , Jie Meng , Peter Ring

A nuclear density functional can be used to find the binding energy and shell structure of nuclei and the energy gap in superconducting nuclear matter. In this paper, we study the possible application of a nuclear density functional theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-08 Yeunhwan Lim

Background: Theoretical approaches based on density functional theory provide the only tractable method to incorporate the wide range of densities and isospin asymmetries required to describe finite nuclei, infinite nuclear matter, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Wei-Chia Chen , J. Piekarewicz

We construct nuclear energy density functionals in terms of derivatives of densities up to sixth, next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). A phenomenological functional built in this way conforms to the ideas of the density matrix…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 B. G. Carlsson , J. Dobaczewski , M. Kortelainen

We present an updated general purpose nuclear equation of state (EoS) for use in simulations of core-collapse supernovae, neutron star mergers and black hole collapse. This EoS is formulated in the context of Density Functional Theory (DFT)…

We construct the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter using the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory in the wide density, temperature range with various proton fractions for the use of supernova simulation and the neutron star…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Shen , H. Toki , K. Oyamatsu , K. Sumiyoshi

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is the only microscopic, global approach to the structure of atomic nuclei. It is used in numerous applications, from determining the limits of stability to gaining a deep understanding of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-06 Nicolas Schunck , Jordan D. McDonnell , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild , Dave Higdon

We propose a method for microscopic calculations of nuclear ground-state properties in the framework of density functional theory. We discuss how the density functional is equivalent to the effective action for the density, thereby…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Schwenk , J. Polonyi

Relativistic energy density functionals (REDF) provide a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear structure phenomena. A modern semi-empirical functional, adjusted to the nuclear matter equation of state and to empirical masses…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Prassa , T. Niksic , G. A. Lalazissis , D. Vretenar

The formation of clusters at sub-saturation densities constitutes an essential feature for a reliable modelization of the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS). Phenomenological models that make use of energy density functionals (EDFs)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-08 S. Burrello , S. Typel