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For light and medium mass systems the capture cross-section may be considered to be the same as that for complete fusion, whereas for heavy systems leading to superheavy formations the evaporation residue cross-section is dramatically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-12 A. S. Umar , V. E. Oberacker , C. Simenel

We employ the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method to study various aspects of the reactions utilized in searches for superheavy elements. These include capture cross-sections, quasifission, prediction of $P_{\mathrm{CN}}$, and other…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-12 A. S. Umar , V. E. Oberacker

Using the time-dependent superfluid local density approximation, the dynamics of fission is investigated in real time from just beyond the saddle to fully separated fragments. Simulations produced in this fully microscopic framework can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 I. Stetcu , A. Bulgac , S. Jin , K. J. Roche , N. Schunck

Few-electron systems confined in two-dimensional parabolic quantum dots at high magnetic fields are studied by the Hartree-Fock (HF) and exact diagonalization methods. A generalized multicenter Gaussian basis is proposed in the HF method. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , S. Bednarek , J. Adamowski , M. B. Tavernier , E. Anisimovas , F. M. Peeters

Background: Recent experiments on beta-delayed fission in the mercury-lead region and the discovery of asym- metric fission in 180 Hg [1] have stimulated theoretical interest in the mechanism of fission in heavy nuclei. Purpose: We study…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Warda , A. Staszczak , W. Nazarewicz

Quantum many-body nuclear dynamics is treated at the mean-field level with the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory. Low-lying and high-lying nuclear vibrations are studied using the linear response theory. The fusion mechanism is also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-05 C. Simenel , M. Dasgupta , D. J. Hinde , A. Kheifets , A. Wakhle

Fragmentation dynamics in the Coulomb explosion of hydrocarbons, specifically methane, ethane, propane, and butane, are investigated using time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) simulations. The goal of this work is to elucidate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Samuel S. Taylor , Kálmán Varga , Károly Mogyorósi , Viktor Chikán , Cody Covington

We revisit Kohn-Sham time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) equations and show that they derive from a canonical Hamiltonian formalism. We use this geometric description of the TDDFT dynamics to define families of symplectic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Francois Mauger , Cristel Chandre , Mette B. Gaarde , Kenneth Lopata , Kenneth J. Schafer

The non-perturbative method to compute Adiabatic Time Dependent Hartree Fock Bogoliubov (ATDHFB) collective inertias is extended to the Generator Coordinate Method (GCM) including the case of density dependent forces. The two inertias…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-06 Samuel A. Giuliani , Luis M. Robledo

A particle-number projection technique is used to calculate transfer probabilities in the $^{16}$O+$^{208}$Pb reaction below the fusion barrier. The time evolution of the many-body wave function is obtained with the time-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Cédric Simenel

Measurements of fission fragment mass distributions provide valuable insights into the properties of fissioning systems and the dynamics of the fission process. Pre-neutron emission distributions, essential for fission fragment evaporation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Pierre Nzabahimana , Amy E. Lovell , Patrick Talou

Based on classical density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the demixing phase transition of a two-dimensional, binary Heisenberg fluid mixture. The particles in the mixture are modeled as Gaussian soft spheres, where one component…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-31 K. Lichtner , A. J. Archer , S. H. L. Klapp

Fission-fragment properties have been calculated for thermal neutron-induced fission on a $^{239}\textrm{Pu}$ target, using constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations with a finite-range effective interaction. A quantitative criterion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 W. Younes , D. Gogny

We consider systems of particles hopping stochastically on $d$-dimensional lattices with space-dependent probabilities. We map the master equation onto an evolution equation in a Fock space where the dynamics are given by a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter Schuetz , Sven Sandow

We examine the manifestation of transient effects in fission by analysing experimental data where fission is induced by peripheral heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies. Available total nuclear fission cross sections of 238U at 1 A…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Jurado , C. Schmitt , K. -H. Schmidt , J. Benlliure , A. R. Junghans

The mass and kinetic energy distribution of nuclear fragments from thermal neutron induced fission of 235U have been studied using a Monte-Carlo simulation. Besides reproducing the pronounced broadening on the standard deviation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-09-10 M. Montoya , E. Saettone , J. Rojas

The large body of experimental data on nuclear fission is analyzed with a semi-empirical ordering scheme based on the macro-microscopic approach and the separability of compound-nucleus and fragment properties on the fission path. We apply…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Karl-Heinz Schmidt , Aleksandra Kelic , Maria Valentina Ricciardi

Background: The influence of shell effect on the dynamics of the fusion fission process and it's evolution with excitation energy in the pre-actinide Hg-Pb region in general is a matter of intense research in recent years. In particular, a…

Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) has become an attractive tool to model quantum dynamics on a first-principles Density Functional Theory level. In recent years, several developments and applications in this field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Joscha Hekele , Peter Kratzer

Density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT) is nowadays the method of choice for the accurate computation of linear and non-linear response properties of materials from first principles. A notable advantage of DFPT over alternative…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 Miquel Royo , Massimiliano Stengel