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 energy density functionals (EDF) have become a standard tool for nuclear
structure calculations, providing a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear …

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 …

We study a particular class of relativistic nuclear energy density functionals in which only
nucleon degrees of freedom are explicitly used in the construction of effective interaction …

We implement for the first time the simulated annealing method to the problem of searching
for the global minimum in the hypersurface of the χ 2 function, which depends on the values …

The mean-field approximation based on effective interactions or density functionals plays a
pivotal role in the description of finite quantum many-body systems that are too large to be …

We present a method based on mean-field states generated by triaxial quadrupole
constraints that are projected on particle number and angular momentum and mixed by the …

The framework of relativistic energy-density functionals is extended to include correlations
related to the restoration of broken symmetries and to fluctuations of collective variables. The …

We discuss the systematics of ground-state quadrupole correlations of binding energies and
mean-square charge radii for all even-even nuclei, from 16 O up to the superheavies, for …

We study systematically the impact of the time-even tensor terms of the Skyrme energy
density functional, ie, terms bilinear in the spin-current tensor density, on deformation …