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A semiclassical approach for calculating shell effects, that has been used in atomic and plasma physics, is applied to describe the electronic supershells in metal clusters. Using the spherical jellium model we give the analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. V. Shpatakovskaya

I review results concerning the derivation of effective equations for the dynamics of interacting Fermi gases in a high-density regime of mean-field type. Three levels of effective theories, increasing in precision, can be distinguished:…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Niels Benedikter

Binding energy of symmetric nuclear matter can be accessed straightforwardly with the textbook mass-formula and a sample of nuclear masses. We show that, with a minimally modified formula (along the lines of the droplet model), the symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Danielewicz

A hallmark of Weyl semimetal is the existence of surface Fermi arcs connecting two surface-projected Weyl nodes with opposite chiralities. An intriguing question is what determines the connectivity of surface Fermi arcs, when multiple pairs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-10 Kun Woo Kim , Woo-Ram Lee , Yong Baek Kim , Kwon Park

The backreaction of quantum degrees of freedom on classical backgrounds is a poorly understood topic in theoretical physics. Most often it is treated within the semiclassical approximation with the help of various ad hoc prescriptions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Fabio van Dissel , George Zahariade

In this study, we analyze the bound-state energy spectrum of quark-antiquark systems using the semiclassical WKB approximation. We consider the Cornell potential, which combines a linear confinement term with a Coulombic interaction, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-11 Bhaskar Jyoti Hazarika , Tanmay Dev

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

We give the asymptotic behavior of the ground state energy of Engel's and Dreizler's relativistic Thomas-Fermi-Weizs\"acker-Dirac functional for heavy atoms for fixed ratio of the atomic number and the velocity of light. Using a variation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Heinz Siedentop

We study the far-from-equilibrium statistical mechanics of periodically driven fermionic atoms in a lossy optical resonator. We show that the interplay of the Fermi surface with cavity losses leads to sub-natural cavity linewidth narrowing,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-22 Francesco Piazza , Philipp Strack

Within the framework of Skyrme energy-density functional theory, the nucleus-nucleus potential is calculated and potential energy surface is obtained with different effective forces for accurately estimating the formation cross sections of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Cheng Peng , Zhao-Qing Feng

We undertake herein to derive the Wigner-Wilkins [W-W] neutron/nucleus scattering kernel, a foundation stone in neutron thermalization theory, on the basis of a self-contained calculation in quantum mechanics. Indeed, a quantum-mechanical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 J. A. Grzesik

Nuclei close to the neutron drip line are described employing an interaction model which is based on the low-momentum interaction $V_{lowk}$. This effective two-body interaction which is determined to reproduce the nucleon-nucleon (NN)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 E. N. E. van Dalen , P. Gögelein , H. Müther

We investigate within the formalism of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a two-dimensional non-relativistic strong interacting system that represents the bound heavy quark-antiquark state, where it was considered a linear potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-24 M. Abu-Shady , Renato R. Luz , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , A. E. Santana

A Quark-Meson Coupling (QMC) model is extended to finite nuclei in the relativistic mean-field or Hartree approximation. The ultra-relativistic quarks are assumed to be bound in non-overlapping nucleon bags, and the interaction between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter G. Blunden , Gerald A. Miller

Modeling the Pauli energy, the contribution to the kinetic energy caused by Pauli statistics, without using orbitals is the open problem of orbital-free density functional theory. An important aspect of this problem is correctly reproducing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Jeremy J. Redd , Antonio C. Cancio

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Kenta Yoshimura

It is established within the Thomas -- Fermi model that a bound state of a proton with a heavy atom should exist. On the one hand, the electrons of the atom screen the proton's field. This decreases the repulsion force between the proton…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Chaly , V. L. Gurevich , M. Yu. Pogorelsky , Yu. V. Pogorelsky

Higher-order WKB methods are used to investigate the border between the solvable and insolvable portions of the spectrum of quasi-exactly solvable quantum-mechanical potentials. The analysis reveals scaling and factorization properties that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. M. Bender , G. Dunne , M. Moshe

An adaptation of the WKB method in the deformation quantization formalism is presented with the aim to obtain an approximate technique of solving the eigenvalue problem for energy in the phase space quantum approach. A relationship between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Jaromir Tosiek , Ruben Cordero , Francisco J. Turrubiates

We develop a semiclassical density functional theory in the context of quantum dots. Coulomb blockade conductance oscillations have been measured in several experiments using nanostructured quantum dots. The statistical properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Denis Ullmo , Tatsuro Nagano , Steven Tomsovic , Harold U. Baranger