Theory of nuclear fission

N Schunck, D Regnier - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Atomic nuclei are quantum many-body systems of protons and neutrons held together by
strong nuclear forces. Under the proper conditions, nuclei can break into two (sometimes …

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 …

Future of nuclear fission theory

M Bender, R Bernard, G Bertsch, S Chiba… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
There has been much recent interest in nuclear fission, due in part to a new appreciation of
its relevance to astrophysics, stability of superheavy elements, and fundamental theory of …

Nuclear moments of indium isotopes reveal abrupt change at magic number 82

AR Vernon, RF Garcia Ruiz, T Miyagi, CL Binnersley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In spite of the high-density and strongly correlated nature of the atomic nucleus,
experimental and theoretical evidence suggests that around particular 'magic'numbers of …

Angular-momentum projection in coupled-cluster theory: Structure of

G Hagen, SJ Novario, ZH Sun, T Papenbrock… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Single-reference coupled-cluster theory is an accurate and affordable computational method
for the nuclear many-body problem. For open-shell nuclei, the reference state typically …

Accessing ground-state and excited-state energies in a many-body system after symmetry restoration using quantum computers

EA Ruiz Guzman, D Lacroix - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We explore the possibility to perform symmetry restoration with the variation after projection
technique on a quantum computer followed by additional postprocessing. The final goal is to …

Angular momentum of fission fragments from microscopic theory

P Marević, N Schunck, J Randrup, R Vogt - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
During nuclear fission, a heavy nucleus splits into two rotating fragments. The associated
angular momentum is large, yet the mechanism of its generation and its dependence on the …

Rotating deformed halo nuclei and shape decoupling effects

XX Sun, SG Zhou - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
To explore the rotational excitation of deformed halo nuclei, the angular momentum
projection (AMP) has been implemented in the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov …

Nonlinear topological symmetry protection in a dissipative system

S Coen, B Garbin, G Xu, L Quinn, N Goldman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We investigate experimentally and theoretically a system ruled by an intricate interplay
between topology, nonlinearity, and spontaneous symmetry breaking. The experiment is …

The time-dependent generator coordinate method in nuclear physics

M Verriere, D Regnier - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of collective behaviors and the existence of large amplitude motions are
both central features in the fields of nuclear structure and reactions. From a theoretical point …