Nuclear landscape based on point-coupling density functional with localized exchange terms

Abstract

Nuclear landscape is initially explored in the framework of relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory under the spherical approximation, adopting the newly developed PCF-PK1 density functional. The functional effectively incorporates exchange terms via the Fierz transformation and explicitly includes the tensor coupling. We analyze the limits of the nuclear landscape and nuclear ground state properties including binding energies, charge radii, α-decay energies, compared with other functionals and experiment. In the present calculations, 7210 nuclei are predicted to be bound with the root-mean-square deviation of binding energies 7.170 MeV. The removal of spurious shell closure at Z = 58 and 92 is discussed by shell gaps and single-particle spectra. For superheavy nuclei, potential magic numbers beyond 208Pb are studied. The inclusion of the tensor coupling in PCF-PK1 helps restore the pseudospin symmetry, leading to a less pronounced shell closure at Z = 120.