Shape coexistence in atomic nuclei

K Heyde, JL Wood - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Shape coexistence in nuclei appears to be unique in the realm of finite many-body quantum
systems. It differs from the various geometrical arrangements that sometimes occur in a …

Relativistic nuclear energy density functionals: Mean-field and beyond

T Nikšić, D Vretenar, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
Relativistic energy density functionals (EDF) have become a standard tool for nuclear
structure calculations, providing a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear …

Nuclear mass table in deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum, I: Even–even nuclei

K Zhang, MK Cheoun, YB Choi, PS Chong… - Atomic Data and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ground-state properties of even–even nuclei with 8≤ Z≤ 120 from the proton drip line to the
neutron drip line have been investigated using the deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov …

New parametrization for the nuclear covariant energy density functional with a point-coupling interaction

PW Zhao, ZP Li, JM Yao, J Meng - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
A new parametrization PC-PK1 for the nuclear covariant energy density functional with
nonlinear point-coupling interaction is proposed by fitting to observables of 60 selected …

Mean field and beyond description of nuclear structure with the Gogny force: a review

LM Robledo, TR Rodríguez… - Journal of Physics G …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Nowadays, the Gogny force is a referent in the theoretical description of nuclear structure
phenomena. Its phenomenological character manifests in a simple analytical form that …

Ab Initio Treatment of Collective Correlations and the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of

JM Yao, B Bally, J Engel, R Wirth, TR Rodríguez… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Working with Hamiltonians from chiral effective field theory, we develop a novel framework
for describing arbitrary deformed medium-mass nuclei by combining the in-medium …

Systematic study of nuclear matrix elements in neutrinoless double- decay with a beyond-mean-field covariant density functional theory

JM Yao, LS Song, K Hagino, P Ring, J Meng - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We report a systematic study of nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) in neutrinoless double-β
decays with a state-of-the-art beyond-mean-field covariant density functional theory. The …

Time-dependent density-functional description of nuclear dynamics

T Nakatsukasa, K Matsuyanagi, M Matsuo… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
The basic concepts and recent developments in the time-dependent density-functional
theory (TDDFT) for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy are presented. The symmetry …

Beyond-mean-field approaches for nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay in the standard mechanism

JM Yao, J Meng, YF Niu, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear weak decays provide important probes to fundamental symmetries in nature. A
precise description of these processes in atomic nuclei requires comprehensive knowledge …

Halos in medium-heavy and heavy nuclei with covariant density functional theory in continuum

J Meng, SG Zhou - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Covariant density functional theory with a few parameters has been widely used to describe
the ground-and excited-state properties for nuclei all over the nuclear chart. In order to …