The caloric curve for mononuclear configurations is studied with a model that allows for both increased surface diffusness and self-similar expansion. The evolution of the effective mass with density and excitation is included in a schematic fashion. The entropies, extracted in a local-density approximation, confirm that nuclei posess a soft mode that is predominately a surface expansion. We al...

Despite the incorrect asymptotic behavior of its potential, the time-dependent local density approximation can yield accurate optical spectra. The oscillator strengths of Rydberg excitations appear in the calculated spectrum as continuum contributions with excellent optical intensity. We explain why, illustrate this for the neon and helium atoms, and also discuss when such calculations of the o...

The spectral function for finite nuclei is computed within the framework of the Local Density Approximation, starting from nuclear matter spectral functions obtained with a realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction. The spectral function is decomposed into a single-particle part and a " correlated " part; the latter is treated in the local density approximation. As an application momentum distribut...