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most citedTowards an ab initio covariant density functional for nuclear structure

138 citations · 701 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

nucl-th2025

From bare two-nucleon interaction to nuclear matter and finite nuclei in a relativistic framework

Shihang Shen, Jun-Xu Lu, Li-Sheng Geng +2

Understanding nuclear forces, infinite nuclear matter, and finite nuclei within a unified framework has remained a central challenge in nuclear physics for decades. While most \tex…

nucl-th2025

Nuclear matter in relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory with local and nonlocal covariant chiral interactions at leading order

Wei-Jiang Zou, Yi-Long Yang, Shihang Shen +1

The simultaneous description for nuclear matter and finite nuclei has been a long-standing challenge in nuclear ab initio theory. With the success for nuclear matter, the relativis…

nucl-th2022★ 57 cited

Wavefunction matching for solving quantum many-body problems

Serdar Elhatisari, Lukas Bovermann, Yuanzhuo Ma +15

Ab initio calculations play an essential role in our fundamental understanding of quantum many-body systems across many subfields, from strongly correlated fermions to quantum chem…

nucl-th2022★ 65 cited

Emergent geometry and duality in the carbon nucleus

Shihang Shen, Serdar Elhatisari, Timo A. Lähde +3

The carbon atom provides the backbone for the complex organic chemistry composing the building blocks of life. The physics of the carbon nucleus in its predominant isotope, …

nucl-th2021★ 19 cited

Wigner SU(4) symmetry, clustering, and the spectrum of C

Shihang Shen, Timo A. Lähde, Dean Lee +1

We present lattice calculations of the low-lying spectrum of C using a simple nucleon-nucleon interaction that is independent of spin and isospin and therefore invariant und…

nucl-th2020★ 2 cited

Extended Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Hamiltonian

R. Romano, X. Roca-Maza, G. Colò +1

The Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model was devised to test the validity of different approximate formalisms to treat many-particle systems. The model was constructed to be exactly so…

nucl-th2019

Volution of nuclear spin-orbit splittings with Skyrme functional SAMi-T

Shihang Shen, Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza

A new Skyrme functional has been developed with tensor term guided by ab initio relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) studies on neutron-proton drops. Instead of extracting in…

nucl-th2019★ 14 cited

Particle-vibration coupling for giant resonances beyond the diagonal approximation

Shihang Shen, Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza

A self-consistent particle-vibration coupling (PVC) model without diagonal approximation is presented. The diagonal approximation, that neglects completely the interaction between…

nucl-th2019

Skyrme Functional with Tensor Terms from ab initio Calculations: Results for the Spin-Orbit Splittings

Shihang Shen, Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza

A new Skyrme functional including tensor terms is presented. The tensor terms have been determined by fitting the results of relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) studies on n…

nucl-th2019

Harmonic potential theorem: \\extension to spin-, velocity- and density-dependent interactions

S. Zanoli, X. Roca-Maza, G. Colò +1

One of the few exact results for the description of the time-evolution of an inhomogeneous, interacting many-particle system is given by the Harmonic Potential Theorem (HPT). The r…

nucl-th2019★ 138 cited

Towards an ab initio covariant density functional for nuclear structure

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Wen Hui Long +2

Nuclear structure models built from phenomenological mean fields, the effective nucleon-nucleon interactions (or Lagrangians), and the realistic bare nucleon-nucleon interactions a…

nucl-th2018★ 42 cited

Skyrme functional with tensor terms from \textit{ab initio} calculations of neutron-proton drops

Shihang Shen, Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza

A new Skyrme functional devised to account well for standard nuclear properties as well as for spin and spin-isospin properties is presented. The main novelty of this work relies o…

nucl-th2018★ 44 cited

Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock in nuclear matter without the average momentum approximation

Hui Tong, Xiu-Lei Ren, Peter Ring +3

Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory allows to derive the -matrix as an effective interaction between nucleons in the nuclear medium. It depends on the center of mass momentum …

nucl-th2018

Effects of Tensor Force in the Relativistic Scheme: A Case Study of Neutron Drops

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Jie Meng +2

Tensor force is an important component in the nucleon-nucleon interaction, nevertheless, the role of the tensor force in the spin properties in finite nuclei is much less clear. In…

nucl-th2018★ 20 cited

Spin symmetry in the Dirac sea derived from the bare nucleon-nucleon interaction

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Jie Meng +2

The spin symmetry in the Dirac sea has been investigated with relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory using the bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. Taking the nucleus O as…

nucl-th2018★ 32 cited

Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory for neutron drops

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Jie Meng +2

Neutron drops confined in an external field are studied in the framework of relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory using the bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. The ground state…

nucl-th2017★ 42 cited

Effects of tensor forces in nuclear spin-orbit splittings from ab initio calculations

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Jie Meng +2

A systematic and specific pattern due to the effects of the tensor forces is found in the evolution of spin-orbit splittings in neutron drops. This result is obtained from relativi…

nucl-th2017★ 59 cited

Fully self-consistent relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory for finite nuclei

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Jie Meng +2

Starting from the relativistic form of the Bonn potential as a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction, the full Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) equations are solved for finite…

nucl-th2016★ 52 cited

Relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory for finite nuclei

Shihang Shen, Jinniu Hu, Haozhao Liang +3

Starting with a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction, for the first time the full relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock equations are solved for finite nuclei in a Dirac-Woods-Saxon basi…

nucl-th2013★ 1 cited

Pseudospin symmetry: Recent progress with supersymmetric quantum mechanics

Haozhao Liang, Jie Meng, Shihang Shen +4

It is an interesting and open problem to trace the origin of the pseudospin symmetry in nuclear single-particle spectra and its symmetry breaking mechanism in actual nuclei. In thi…

nucl-th2013★ 47 cited

Pseudospin symmetry in supersymmetric quantum mechanics: II. Spin-orbit effects

Shihang Shen, Haozhao Liang, Pengwei Zhao +2

Following a previous paper [Haozhao Liang \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. C \textbf{87}, 014334 (2013)], we discuss the spin-orbit effects on the pseudospin symmetry (PSS) within the f…

nucl-th2012★ 67 cited

Pseudospin symmetry in supersymmetric quantum mechanics: Schrödinger equations

Haozhao Liang, Shihang Shen, Pengwei Zhao +1

The origin of pseudospin symmetry (PSS) and its breaking mechanism are explored by combining supersymmetry (SUSY) quantum mechanics, perturbation theory, and the similarity renorma…