Energy density functional methods for atomic nuclei / edited by Nicolas Schunck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schunck, Nicolas, editor.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 6.

IOP expanding physics

[IOP release 6]

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear structure.

Nuclear reactions.

Density functionals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2019]

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Biography/History:

Nicolas Schunck received his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Strasbourg and he is currently a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His work is centred on the development and applications of computational methods for nuclear energy density functional theory, with a particular focus on the development of a fundamental description of nuclear fission.

Summary:

Energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become over the past twenty years a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book gives an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy. Edited by an expert in energy density functional theory, Dr Nicolas Schunck, alongside several experts within the field, this book provides a comprehensive and informative exploration of EDF methods. Detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and figures are used throughout the book to give a coherent narrative of topics that have hitherto rarely been covered together.

Contents:

1. Non-relativistic energy density functionals

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Energy density functional kernels

1.3. Pairing and Coulomb functionals

2. Covariant energy density functionals

2.1. Relativistic description of quantum systems

2.2. Symmetry properties of QCD

2.3. Effective Lagrangians for nuclear systems

2.4. Phenomenological Lagrangians

2.5. Derivation of the covariant energy density functional

2.6. Advantages of a relativistic description of nuclear systems

3. Single-reference and multi-reference formulations

3.1. Single-reference implementation of nuclear energy density functionals

3.2. Multi-reference implementation of nuclear energy density functionals

4. Time-dependent density functional theory

4.1. Time evolution equations

4.2. Role of pairing correlations in nuclear dynamics

4.3. Local DFT for superfluids

4.4. Validation of the TDSLDA : the unitary Fermi gas

4.5. Symmetry-breaking

4.6. Time-dependent techniques

4.7. Selected examples

5. Small-amplitude collective motion

5.1. RPA with a Hamiltonian

5.2. RPA in density functional theory

5.3. Sum rules

5.4. Pairing correlations and QRPA formalism

5.5. Charge-changing QRPA

6. Large-amplitude collective motion

6.1. Collective subspace

6.2. Adiabatic time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory

6.3. Adiabatic self-consistent collective coordinate method

6.4. Gaussian overlap approximation of the GCM

7. Finite temperature

7.1. A reminder of statistical quantum mechanics

7.2. Finite-temperature Hartree-Fock theory

7.3. Finite-temperature Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory

7.4. Finite-temperature RPA

7.5. Beyond mean field

8. Numerical implementations

8.1. Configuration space and basis expansions

8.2. Lattice techniques

8.3. The self-consistent loop

8.4. Time-evolution algorithms

9. Calibration of energy functionals

9.1. Parameters of energy functionals

9.2. Physical observables

9.3. Uncertainties of EDF parameters

9.4. Propagation of theoretical uncertainties.

Notes:

"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 4, 2019).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780750314220

9780750314244

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