The last decade has witnessed both quantitative and qualitative progress in shell-model
studies, which have resulted in remarkable gains in our understanding of the structure of the …

Signatures of criticality in the evolution of the nuclear ground-state shapes across the N× Z
plane are discussed. Attention is paid to specific data indicating sudden structural changes …

The effective interaction GXPF1 for shell-model calculations in the full pf shell is tested in
detail from various viewpoints such as binding energies, electromagnetic moments and …

The nucleus is one of the most multifaceted many-body systems in the Universe. It exhibits a
multitude of responses depending on the way one “probes” it. With increasing technical …

The development, present status and future perspectives of the Monte Carlo shell model are
discussed. The development and limitation of the conventional shell model calculations are …

We present a newly enhanced version of the Monte Carlo shell-model (MCSM) method by
incorporating the conjugate gradient method and energy-variance extrapolation. This new …

We propose a variational calculation scheme utilizing the superposition of the angular-
momentum, parity, number projected quasiparticle vacua, that is especially suitable for …

We suggest that the angular momentum in fission fragments is generated by statistical
excitation at scission. The magnitude of the angular momentum is determined by excitation …

We present an overview of the advanced Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM), including its
recent applications to no-core shell-model calculations and to large-scale shell-model …

Quantum phase transitions between competing equilibrium shapes of nuclei with an odd
number of nucleons are explored using a microscopic framework of nuclear energy density …