Progress on tilted axis cranking covariant density functional theory for nuclear magnetic and antimagnetic rotation

• Published in: Frontiers of physics Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 55 - 79
• Main Author: 孟杰 彭婧 张双全 赵鹏巍
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Higher Education Press 01.02.2013; SP Higher Education Press; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: antimagnetic; antimagnetic rotation; Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Atomic; axis; Condensed Matter Physics; covariant; covariant density functional theory; Cranking; density; Density functional theory; functional; magnetic; Magnetic moments; Magnetic resonance; magnetic rotation; Molecular; Optical and Plasma Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Phase transitions; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quadrupoles; Review Article; Rotation; theory; tilted; tilted axis cranking; antimagnetic rotation; magnetic rotation; covariant density functional theory; tilted axis cranking
• ISSN: 2095-0462; 2095-0470
• DOI: 10.1007/s11467-013-0287-y

Magnetic rotation and antimagnetic rotation are exotic rotational phenomena observed in weakly deformed or near-spherical nuclei, which are respectively interpreted in terms of the shears mechanism and two shearslike mechanism. Since their observations, magnetic rotation and antimagnetic rotation phenomena have been mainly investigated in the framework of tilted axis cranking based on the pairing plus quadrupole model. For the last decades, the covariant density functional theory and its extension have been proved to be successful in describing series of nuclear ground-states and excited states properties, including the binding energies, radii, single-particle spectra, resonance states, halo phenomena, magnetic moments, magnetic rotation, low-lying excitations, shape phase transitions, collective rotation and vibrations, etc. This review will mainly focus on the tilted axis cranking covariant density functional theory and its application for the magnetic rotation and antimagnetic rotation phenomena.