Skyrme energy-density functional approach to collective dynamics

Abstract

Our recent developments for the microscopic description of nuclear collective dynamics in the framework of the time-dependent density functional theory is presented. It is shown that the quasiparticle random-phase approximation is ready for the systematic investigation of the giant resonances in the entire mass region of nuclear chart and that the collective Hamiltonian approach gives the quantitative description of the low-lying states in transitional nuclei with the Skyrme and pairing energy density functionals as a microscopic input. We put emphasis on necessity of the massive use of high performance computers to carry out such microscopic calculations.