In-medium nuclear cluster energies within the extended Thomas-Fermi approach

The Nuclear Thomas-Fermi Model

The statistical Thomas-Fermi model is applied to a comprehensive survey of macroscopic nuclear properties. The model uses a Seyler-Blanchard effective nucleonnucleon interaction, generalized by the addition of one momentum-dependent and one density-dependent term. The adjustable parameters of the interaction were fitted to shell-corrected masses of 1654 nuclei, to the diffuseness of the nuclear...

Variational approach to the Thomas-Fermi equation

By the semi-inverse method, a variational principle is obtained for the Thomas– Fermi equation, then the Ritz method is applied to solve an analytical solution, which is a much simpler and more efficient method. 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

Cluster explosion in an intense laser pulse: Thomas-Fermi model

A refined three-dimensional version of the time-dependent Thomas-Fermi model is used to qualitatively study the explosion of rare-gas atomic clusters in an intense laser field. Clusters as large as 55 atoms are exposed to a strong subpicosecond laser pulse. A stepwise character of the explosion is observed in which atomic shells are expelled sequentially. The role of ‘‘hot’’ electron dynamics i...

Dipole Moments in Thomas-Fermi-Dirac and Thomas-Fermi Theories

Particle correlations in the generalized Thomas-Fermi approach.

This paper presents the Thomas-Fermi approach generalized to consider the particle correlations in many-body systems with non-Coulomb interaction potentials. The key points of the generalization consist in using integral formulation and extracting the pair distribution function. The latter has been found to obey the integral equation which, in the classical limit, is reduced to the well-known e...