https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01641-2
Review
Theoretical models for exotic nuclei (2nd edition)
1
RIKEN Nishina Center Accelerator-based Science, 351-0198, Wako, Saitama, Japan
2
Center for Mathematics and Physics, University of Aizu, 965-8580, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
3
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, 606-8502, Kyoto, Japan
a
hagino.kouichi.5m@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Received:
4
September
2024
Accepted:
5
July
2025
Published online:
18
August
2025
This article is a new edition of the review paper which we published in 2015 (Sagawa and Hagino in Eur Phys J A 51:102, 2015). We particularly summarize many developments in physics of exotic nuclei after we published the previous review article. This includes recent theoretical developments in the density functional theory, the three-body model, ab-initio approaches, and machine learnings, as well as new experimental findings such as tetra neutrons, knock-out reactions of halo nuclei, 4-neutron decays of 
O, the Coulomb breakup of 
B, and 
-decays of nuclei relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis. We also cover halo and related topics in other disciplines, such as Efimov physics in cold atoms and halos in hypernuclei.
This article is a revised version of https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2015-15102-4
Change summary Major revision, updated and expanded
Change details This is a new edition of the review article published by the same author as Eur. Phys. J. A51, 102 (2015). Many developents that have occurred since then in the physics of exotic nuclei are summarized in this new edition. This includes recent theoretical developments in the density functional theory, the three-body m odel, ab-initio and machine learning approaches, as well as new experimental findings such as tetra neutrons, knock-out reactions of halo nuclei, 4-neutron decays of 28O, the Coulomb breakup of 19B, and 
-decays of nuclei relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis. The new edition also covers nuclear halos and related topics in other disciplines, such as Efimov physics in cold atoms and halos in hypernuclei.
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