1. Much of the debate surrounding the consequences of biodiversity loss centres around the issue of whether different species are functionally similar in their effects on ecological processes. In this study, we examined whether populations consisting of smaller, more abundant individuals are functionally similar to populations of the same species with larger, fewer individuals. 2. We manipulate...

In ground-state DFT, the fact that the xc potential is a functional of the density is a direct consequence of the one-to-one mapping between ground-state densities and potentials. In TDDFT, the one-to-one mapping is between densities and potentials for a given initial-state. This means that the potentials, most generally, are functionals of the initial state of the system, as well as of the den...

Many properties of nuclei and nuclear matter can be well described with modern phenomenological energy density functionals (EDF). A particular strong constraint represents the observation of two pulsars of approx. two solar masses [1]. It requires a sufficiently stiff equation of state (EoS) at densities well above the nuclear saturation density. Since nucleons of large momenta interact with th...

The problem of the influence of the medium on the effective pairing interaction in nuclear matter is a long standing one that still awaits satisfactory solution. This is true even for the simplest case of pairing in the S0 channel in pure neutron matter, to which this article is restricted. A quantitative control on this issue would be very useful in particular for the understanding of neutron ...

We present the self-consistent, nonperturbative analysis of isospin mixing using the nuclear density functional approach and the rediagonalization of the Coulomb interaction in the good-isospin basis. The unphysical isospin violation on the mean-field level, caused by the neutron excess, is eliminated by the proposed method. We find a significant dependence of the magnitude of isospin breaking ...

The Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equation for the ground states of even-even atomic nuclei is solved using the canonical representation in the coordinate space for zero range interactions like the Skyrme force. The gradient method is improved for faster convergence to the solutions under constraint of orthogonality between canonical orbitals. Necessity of the cut-off of the pairing interaction is sh...

We investigate the effect of exchange and correlation (xc) in low-density electron bilayers. Along with the direct Coulomb interaction, the effective electron-electron interaction mediated by the exchange of virtual polar optical (PO) phonons is considered. We find that the introduction of xc corrections results in a significant enhancement of the transresistivity and qualitative changes in its...

The interaction between a dc spin-polarized electric current and a magnetic domain wall in a Permalloy nanowire was studied by high-bandwidth scanning Kerr polarimetry. The full functional dependence of wall velocity on electric current and magnetic field is presented. With the pinning potential nulled by a field, current-induced velocity enhancements exceeded 35 m/s at a current density of app...

Extensive systematizations of theoretical and experimental nuclear densities and of optical potential strengths extracted from heavy-ion elastic scattering data analyses at low and intermediate energies are presented. The energy-dependence of the nuclear potential is accounted for within a model based on the nonlocal nature of the interaction. The systematics indicates that the heavy-ion nuclea...

The Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model has been extensively studied by many researchers. In previous work we have generalized the NJL model to include a covariant model of confinement. In the present work we consider further modification of the model so as to reproduce the type of Euclidean-space momentum-dependent quark mass values obtained in lattice simulations of QCD. This may be done by introd...