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By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

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The superheavy nuclei push the periodic table of the elements and the chart of the nuclides to their limits, providing a unique laboratory for studies of the electron-nucleus interactions. The most important weak decay mode in known…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 A. Ravlić , P. Schwerdtfeger , W. Nazarewicz

We introduce a functional of the local spectral electron density which can be used to to compute the total energy and the local spectral function of strongly-correlated materials. We illustrate the applicability of the method by using as an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Savrasov , G. Kotliar

We obtained a density-dependent analytical expression of binding energy per nucleon for different neutron-proton asymmetry of the nuclear matter (NM) with a polynomial fitting, which manifests the results of effective field theory motivated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , Manpreet Kaur , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

Nuclear symmetry energy $E_{\rm{sym}}(\rho)$ at density $\rho$ is normally expanded or simply parameterized as a function of $\chi=(\rho-\rho_0)/3\rho_0$ in the form of $E_{\rm{sym}}(\rho)\approx…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li

Nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT) plays a prominent role in the understanding of nuclear structure, being the approach with the widest range of applications. Hohenberg and Kohn theorems warrant the existence of a nuclear Energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 G. Accorto , P. Brandolini , F. Marino , A. Porro , A. Scalesi , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , E. Vigezzi

Reliable predictions of nuclear properties are needed as much to answer fundamental science questions as in applications such as reactor physics or data evaluation. Nuclear density functional theory is currently the only microscopic, global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-23 N. Schunck , J. D. McDonnell , D. Higdon , J. Sarich , S. Wild

A microscopic method for calculating nuclear level densities (NLD) is developed, based on the framework of energy density functionals. Intrinsic level densities are computed from single-quasiparticle spectra obtained in a finite-temperature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-18 Jie Zhao , Tamara Nikšić , Dario Vretenar

The concept of the electron localization function (ELF) is extended to two-dimensional (2D) electron systems. We show that the topological properties of the ELF in 2D are considerably simpler than in molecules studied previously. We compute…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-08 E. Rasanen , A. Castro , E. K. U. Gross

A short review of recent results on the global performance of covariant energy density functionals is presented. It is focused on the analysis of the accuracy of the description of physical observables of ground and excited states as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-20 A. V. Afanasjev , S. E. Agbemava , D. Ray , P. Ring

An essentially "complete" description of the low-energy nuclear structure of the superfluid nucleus $^{120}$Sn and of its odd-$A$ neighbors is provided by the observations carried out with the help of Coulomb excitation and of one-- and of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-30 A. Idini , G. Potel , F. Barranco , E. Vigezzi , R. A. Broglia

The nonrelativistic reduction of the self-consistent covariant density functional theory is realized for the first time with the similarity renormalization group (SRG) method. The reduced nonrelativistic Hamiltonian and densities are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

Using the framework of nuclear energy density functionals we examine the conditions for single-nucleon localization and formation of cluster structures in finite nuclei. We propose to characterize localization by the ratio of the dispersion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 J. -P. Ebran , E. Khan , T. Niksic , D. Vretenar

We compute the equation of state, the gap as well as the density fluctuations of a two-component superfluid Fermi gas over the whole range of BEC-BCS crossover at vanishing temperature within the functional renormalisation group approach.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-28 Bruno M. Faigle-Cedzich , Jan M. Pawlowski , Christof Wetterich

In the paper, we propose a new approach to the mathematical description of the separation of a neutron from the atom's nucleus on the basis of the formalisms of tropical mathematics and nonstandard analysis. In studying the behavior of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 V. P. Maslov

Nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) with density-dependent kernels are currently the most accurate functionals available for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) calculations. However, despite advances in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Yongshuo Chen , Cheng Ma , Boning Cui , Tian Cui , Wenhui Mi , Qiang Xu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

We survey approaches to nonrelativistic density functional theory (DFT) for nuclei using progress toward ab initio DFT for Coulomb systems as a guide. Ab initio DFT starts with a microscopic Hamiltonian and is naturally formulated using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 J. E. Drut , R. J. Furnstahl , L. Platter

The electric dipole (E1) strength functions have been systematically calculated based on the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), using the finite amplitude method and the real-time approach to the TDDFT with pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Shuichiro Ebata , Tsunenori Inakura , Takashi Nakatsukasa

Density functional theory (DFT) is applied to atomic spectra under perturbations of superfluid liquid helium. The atomic DFT of helium is used to obtain the distribution of helium atoms around the impurity atom, and the electronic DFT is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Takashi Nakatsukasa , Kazuhiro Yabana , George F Bertsch

Potential energy surfaces of even-even superheavy nuclei are evaluated within the macroscopic-microscopic approximation. A very rapidly converging analytical Fourier-type shape parametrization is used to describe nuclear shapes throughout…