Nuclear Energy Density Functionals Constrained by Low-Energy QCD

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6 February 2008

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0802.0838

Abstract

A microscopic framework of nuclear energy density functionals is reviewed, which establishes a direct relation between low-energy QCD and nuclear structure, synthesizing effective field theory methods and principles of density functional theory. Guided by two closely related features of QCD in the low-energy limit: a) in-medium changes of vacuum condensates, and b) spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry; a relativistic energy density functional is developed and applied in studies of ground-state properties of spherical and deformed nuclei.

Keywords

ENERGY DENSITY FUNCTIONALS
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY
EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY
NUCLEAR ENERGY DENSITY
LOW ENERGY QCD
SPHERICAL
QCD

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