Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics: a new insight into the structure of nuclei

The AMD theory for nuclear structure is explained by showing its actual applications. First the formulation of AMD including various refined versions is briefly presented and its characteristics are discussed, putting a stress on its nature as an ab initio theory. Then we demonstrate fruitful applications to various structure problems in stable nuclei, in order to explicitly verify the ab initio nature of AMD, especially the ability to describe both mean-field-type structure and cluster structure. Finally, we show the results of applications of AMD to unstable nuclei, from which we see that AMD is powerful in elucidating and understanding various types of nuclear structure of unstable nuclei.