Alpha matter on a lattice
Abstract
We obtain the equation of state of interacting alpha matter and the critical temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation of alpha particles within an effective scalar field theory. We start from a non-relativistic model of uniform alpha matter interacting with attractive two-body and repulsive three-body potentials and reformulate this model as a O(2) symmetric scalar \phi^6 field theory with negative quartic and positive sextic interactions. Upon restricting the Matsubara sums, near the temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation, to the zeroth order modes we further obtain an effective classical theory in three spatial dimensions. The phase diagram of the alpha matter is obtained from simulations of this effective field theory on a lattice using local Monte-Carlo algorithms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0407020,
title = {Alpha matter on a lattice},
author = {Armen Sedrakian and Herbert Müther and Peter Schuck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0407020},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
14 pages, 2 figures; v2: improved presentation, results unchanged; to appear in Nucl. Phys. A