We present a minimal nuclear energy density functional (NEDF) called “SeaLL1” that has
the smallest number of possible phenomenological parameters to date. SeaLL1 is defined …

Background: The explicit density dependence in the coupling coefficients entering the
nonrelativistic nuclear energy-density functional (EDF) is understood to encode effects of …

In nuclear physics, density functional theory (DFT) provides the basis for state-of-the art
studies of ground-state properties of heavy nuclei. However, the direct relation of the density …

We present the simplest nuclear energy density functional (NEDF) to date, determined by
only 4 significant phenomenological parameters, yet capable of fitting measured nuclear …

Density functional theory provides the basis for uncounted studies of ground-state properties
of many-body systems. However, the connection between the energy density functional and …

We study the nature of strongly-interacting fermion matter by employing functional
Renormalization Group (RG) techniques. In the first part of this thesis, we examine relativistic …

One century ago, on December 2, 1915, Albert Einstein published his landmark paper on
“Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation”(“The Field Equations of Gravitation”). Almost two …