Charge-dependent nucleon-nucleon interaction at N$^3$LO in nuclear lattice effective field theory
Abstract
The nuclear lattice effective field theory (NLEFT) is an efficient tool for solving nuclear many-body problems, which takes high-fidelity lattice chiral interactions as input and computes nuclear low-energy observables via quantum Monte Carlo techniques. In this work, we present the first next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NLO) chiral forces on the lattice with the isospin-breaking effects fully taken into account. We focus on both the charge-independence breaking (CIB) and charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) effects. Specifically, we include the isospin-breaking effect from the mass difference between the charged and neutral pions in the one-pion-exchange potential (OPEP), the Coulomb force for the interaction and the contribution of two additional charge-dependent contact operators. We also explicitly incorporate the two-pion-exchange potentials which was mostly neglected in previous NLEFT calculations. With these improvements, we are able to accurately reproduce the and scattering phase shifts up to relative momentum MeV as well as the deuteron properties. The construction of these charge-dependent lattice nuclear forces establishes a solid foundation for future high-precision nuclear ab initio calculations within the NLEFT framework.
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@article{arxiv.2503.18017,
title = {Charge-dependent nucleon-nucleon interaction at N$^3$LO in nuclear lattice effective field theory},
author = {Chengxin Wu and Teng Wang and Bing-Nan Lu and Ning Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18017},
year = {2026}
}
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17 pages, 7 figures, published, selected as editors' suggestion