The Nuclear MANY-BODY Problem
The Nuclear MANY-BODY Problem
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DOI:
10.1142/9789812777072_0010
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发表时间:
2002
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S. Fantoni
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S. Fantoni
The most recent developments in the nuclear many–body problem are briefly reviewed, trying to focus on the major advances reached in the last few years and on the still open problems. Particular attention is devoted to quantum simulations for nuclear and neutron matter, which have recently received much attention, and, given the rapid increase in computer power, pose themeselves amongst the best candidates for a new generation ofab initiocalculations in nuclear physics. The newly developed Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo method, or other stochastic methods using auxiliary field ideas, appear to embody all the main features to perform simulations of large nuclear systems, solving, under this respect, the long standingspin problem. The use of the Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo method to compute properties of many particle systems interacting via spin-isospin dependent nuclear potentials is described. By combining diffusion Monte Carlo for the spatial degrees of freedom and auxiliary field Monte Carlo to separate the spin-isospin operators, ground state energies and other properties can be calculated for medium size nucleon systems. Recent applications of the method to obtain the equation of state and the compressibilty of neutron matter are presented and discussed. These calculations use realistic interactions such as the Argonneandtwo–nucleon potentials plus the Urbana IX three-nucleon potential. Other properties of astrophysical interest such as the spin susceptibility of neutron matter and the symmetry energy are also discussed. A new homework problem is proposed to test the modern many–body techniques with a nuclear potential which includes tensor, spin–orbit and three–body interactions.