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20182026
most citedFuture of Nuclear Fission Theory

180 citations

52 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Opacity predictions in plasmas under stellar conditions using deep learning

Djamel Benredjem, Jean-Christophe Pain

The aim of this work is to predict the opacity of plasmas under stellar conditions. We focus on iron and nickel, as these elements have been extensively investigated both theoretic…

cond-mat.soft2026

Inferring partial crystalline order in liquids from electrical resistivity

Nadine Wetta, Jean-Christophe Pain

This work investigates how locally persistent crystal-like ordering in liquids influences the Debye-Waller factor. We have developed a theoretical framework based on liquid-phonon…

cond-mat.supr-con2026★ 1 cited

Widefield NV Magnetic Field Reconstruction for Probing the Meissner Effect and Critical Current Density under Pressure

Kin On Ho, Cassandra Dailledouze, Martin Schmidt +3

The spatial distribution of a magnetic field can be determined with micrometer resolution using widefield nitrogen vacancy (NV) center magnetic imaging. Nevertheless, reconstructin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Observation of hexagonal close-packed water ice at conditions in ice giant planetary interiors

Alexis Forestier, Gunnar Weck, Sandra Ninet +4

Using synchrotron x-ray diffraction in laser-heated diamond anvil cells, we report the observation of an hexagonal close-packed (hcp) phase of water ice at high pressure and temper…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Electrical conductivities and low frequency opacities in the warm dense matter regime

Mikael Tacu, Jean-Christophe Pain, Matthias Pautard +1

In this article, we examine different approaches for calculating low frequency opacities in the warm dense matter regime. The relevance of the average-atom approximation and of dif…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 9 cited

Imaging the Meissner Effect and Flux Trapping of Superconductors under High Pressure using N-V Centers

Cassandra Dailledouze, Antoine Hilberer, Martin Schmidt +7

Pressure is a key parameter for tuning or revealing superconductivity in materials and compounds. Many measurements of superconducting phase transition temperatures have been condu…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Mean-field approximation on steroids: exact description of the deuteron

B. Bally, A. Scalesi, V. Somà +2

The present article demonstrates that the deuteron, i.e. the lightest bound nuclear system made of a single proton and a single neutron, can be accurately described within a mean-f…

nucl-th2024

Dimensionality reduction through tensor factorization : application to \textit{ab initio} nuclear physics calculations

Mikael Frosini, Thomas Duguet, Pierre Tamagno +1

The construction of predictive models of atomic nuclei from first principles is a challenging (yet necessary) task towards the systematic generation of theoretical predictions (and…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 5 cited

Recovering particle velocity and size distributions in ejecta with Photon Doppler Velocimetry

J. A. Don Jayamanne, R. Outerovitch, F. Ballanger +11

When a solid metal is struck, its free surface can eject fast and fine particles. Despite the many diagnostics that have been implemented to measure the mass, size, velocity or tem…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 1 cited

Benford's law in atomic spectra and opacity databases

Jean-Christophe Pain, Yuri Ralchenko

The intriguing law of anomalous numbers, also named Benford's law, states that the significant digits of data follow a logarithmic distribution favoring the smallest values. In thi…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 5 cited

Facilities and practices for linear response Hubbard parameters U and J in Abinit

Lórien MacEnulty, Matteo Giantomassi, Bernard Amadon +2

Members of the DFT+U family of functionals are increasingly prevalent methods of addressing errors intrinsic to (semi-) local exchange-correlation functionals at minimum computatio…

nucl-th2023★ 6 cited

Multiconfigurational time-dependent density functional theory for atomic nuclei: Technical and numerical aspects

Petar Marević, David Regnier, Denis Lacroix

The nuclear time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a tool of choice for describing various dynamical phenomena in atomic nuclei. In a recent study, we reported an exte…

physics.space-ph2023★ 25 cited

Nonresonant scattering of energetic electrons by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves: spacecraft observations and theoretical framework

Xin An, Anton Artemyev, Vassilis Angelopoulos +4

Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves lead to rapid scattering of relativistic electrons in Earth's radiation belts, due to their large amplitudes relative to other waves that…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 3 cited

Strengths and limitations of the adiabatic exact-exchange kernel for total energy calculations

Maria Hellgren, Lucas Baguet

We investigate the adiabatic approximation to the exact-exchange kernel for calculating correlation energies within the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation framework of ti…

nucl-th2023★ 13 cited

Quantum fluctuations induce collective multiphonons in finite Fermi liquids

Petar Marević, David Regnier, Denis Lacroix

We show that collective multiphonon states in atomic nuclei emerge at high excitation energies when quantum fluctuations in the collective space are included beyond the independent…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 4 cited

Checking the reliability of opacity databases

Jean-Christophe Pain, Patricia Croset

Mathematical inequalities, combined with atomic-physics sum rules, enable one to derive lower and upper bounds for the Rosseland and/or Planck mean opacities. The resulting constra…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 4 cited

Schroedinger equation on a generic radial grid

Christopher Bowen, Jean-Christophe Pain

In this note, we discuss the choice of radial grid in the numerical resolution of the Schroedinger equation. We detail the transformation of the equation resulting from a change of…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 5 cited

On the effect of electronic stopping in molecular dynamics simulations of collision cascades in Gallium Arsenide

Johannes L. Teunissen, Thomas Jarrin, Nicolas Richard +6

Understanding the generation and evolution of defects induced in matter by ion irradiation is of fundamental importance to estimate the degradation of functional properties of mate…

physics.space-ph2022★ 33 cited

Temporal Scales of Electron Precipitation Driven by Whistler-Mode Waves

Xiao-Jia Zhang, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Anton Artemyev +4

Electron resonant scattering by whistler-mode waves is one of the most important mechanisms responsible for electron precipitation to the Earth's atmosphere. We investigate tempora…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 3 cited

A variational atomic model of plasma accounting for ion radial correlations and electronic structure of ions (VAMPIRES)

T. Blenski, R. Piron

We propose a model of ion-electron plasma (or nucleus-electron plasma) that accounts for the electronic structure around nuclei (i.e. ion structure) as well as for ion-ion correlat…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 5 cited

A fast approximation to supershell partition functions

Bran G. Wilson, Jean-Christophe Pain

A formula for supershell partition functions, which play a major role in the Super Transition Array approach to radiative-opacity calculations, is derived as a functional of the di…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Covariant energy density functionals with and without tensor couplings at the Hartree-Bogoliubov level

F. Mercier, J. -P. Ebran, E. Khan

Background: The study of additional terms in functionals is relevant to better describe nuclear structure phenomenology. Among these terms, the tensor one is known to impact nuclea…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 2 cited

Addressing energy density functionals in the language of path-integrals II: Comparative study of functional renormalization group techniques applied to the (0+0)-D -symmetric -theory

Kilian Fraboulet, Jean-Paul Ebran

The present paper is the second of a series of publications that aim at investigating relevant directions to turn the nuclear energy density functional (EDF) method as an effective…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 74 cited

Roadmap on Electronic Structure Codes in the Exascale Era

Vikram Gavini, Stefano Baroni, Volker Blum +38

Electronic structure calculations have been instrumental in providing many important insights into a range of physical and chemical properties of various molecular and solid-state…