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It has been revealed through numerical calculations that the Second Random Phase Approximation (SRPA) with the Hartree-Fock solution as its reference state results in 1) spurious states at genuinely finite energy, contrary to common…
A microscopic model aimed at the description of charge-exchange nuclear excitations along isotopic chains which include open-shell systems, is developed. It consists of quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA) made on top of…
The $GW$ method for calculating quasi-particle energies of solids commonly begin from a DFT Hamiltonian and Kohn-Sham orbitals in a plane wave basis. Screening of the coulomb interaction is implemented using the inverse dielectric function…
We have developed a fully consistent framework for calculations in the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) with $NN$ interactions from the Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) and other unitary transformations of realistic…
Nuclear state densities are important inputs to statistical models of compound-nucleus reactions. State densities are often calculated with self-consistent mean-field approximations that do not include important correlations and have to be…
The self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) approach is formulated in the canonical single-nucleon basis of the relativistic Hatree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory. This approach is applied to study the isobaric analog…
Isoscalar dipole strength distributions in spherical medium- and heavy-mass nuclei are calculated within random phase approximation (RPA) or quasiparticle RPA. Different Skyrme-type interactions corresponding to incompressibilities in the…
The self-consistent separable random-phase approximation (SRPA) model with Skyrme forces is extended to the case of magnetic excitations and applied to the description of spin-flip and orbital M1 giant resonances in the isotopic chain…
We investigate giant resonances of spherical nuclei on the basis of the Argonne V18 potential after unitary transformation within the Similarity Renormalization Group or the Unitary Correlation Operator Method supplemented by a…
Using the Hartree-Fock plus random-phase-approximation (HF+RPA), we study the impurity effect of $\Lambda$ hyperon on the collective vibrational excitations of double-$\Lambda$ hypernuclei. To this end, we employ a Skyrme-type $\Lambda N$…
In the present contribution, we discuss the behavior of Skyrme forces when they are employed to study both neutron stars and giant resonance states in 208Pb within the fully self-consistent Random Phase Approximation (RPA). We point out…
The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for total energies has previously been shown to provide a qualitatively correct description of static correlation in molecular systems, where density functional theory (DFT) with local functionals are…
The dipole excitations for calcium and zirconium isotopes are studied within the fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock mean field incorporated with the renormalized random-phase approximation (RRPA) using the Skyrme interaction SLy5. The RRPA…
By using the Continuum RPA (CRPA) method, the incoherent transition strength of the exotic mu - e conversion in the 208Pb and 40Ca nuclei is investigated. The question whether excited nuclear states lying high in the continuum give an…
The magnetic dipole ($M$1) resonances of even-even $^{112-120, 124}$Sn isotopes are investigated in the framework of the self-consistent Skyrme Hartree-Fock (HF) + BCS and Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA). The Skyrme energy…
Self-consistent relativistic random-phase approximation (RPA) in the radial coordinate representation is established by using the finite amplitude method (FAM). Taking the isoscalar giant monopole resonance in spherical nuclei as example,…
Fusion cross-sections are computed for the $^{40}$Ca$+^{40}$Ca system over a wide energy range with two microscopic approaches where the only phenomenological input is the Skyrme energy density functional. The first method is based on the…
Range-separated methods combining a short-range density functional with long-range random phase approximations RPAs with or without exchange response kernel are tested on rare-gas dimers and the S22 benchmark set of weakly interacting…
It has been recently shown, that some Skyrme functionals can lead to non-converging results in the calculation of some properties of atomic nuclei. A previous study has pointed out a possible link between these convergence problems and the…
We use different types of determinantal Hartree-Fock (HF) wave functions to calculate variational bounds for the ground state energy of spin-half fermions in volume V_0, with mass m, electric charge zero, and magnetic moment mu, which are…