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Fixed points of the SRG evolution and the on-shell limit of the nuclear force

Nuclear Theory 2016-04-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the infrared limit of the similarity renormalization group (SRG) using a simple toy model for the nuclear force aiming to investigate the fixed points of the SRG evolution with both the Wilson and the Wegner generators. We show how a fully diagonal interaction at the similarity cutoff λ0\lambda \rightarrow 0 may be obtained from the eigenvalues of the hamiltonian and quantify the diagonalness by means of operator norms. While the fixed points for both generators are equivalent when no bound-states are allowed by the interaction, the differences arising from the presence of the Deuteron bound-state can be disentangled very clearly by analyzing the evolved interactions in the infrared limit λ0\lambda \to 0 on a finite momentum grid. Another issue we investigate is the location on the diagonal of the hamiltonian in momentum-space where the SRG evolution places the Deuteron bound-state eigenvalue once it reaches the fixed point. This finite momentum grid setup provides an alternative derivation of the celebrated trace identities, as a by product. The different effects due to either the Wilson or the Wegner generators on the binding energies of A=2,3,4A=2,3,4 systems are investigated and related to the ocurrence of a Tjon-line which emerges as the minimum of an avoided crossing between Eα=4Et3EdE_\alpha= 4 E_t - 3 E_d and Eα=2EtE_\alpha= 2 E_t . All infrared features of the flow equations are illustrated using the toy model for the two-nucleon SS-waves.

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@article{arxiv.1601.02360,
  title  = {Fixed points of the SRG evolution and the on-shell limit of the nuclear force},
  author = {E. Ruiz Arriola and S. Szpigel and V. S. Timoteo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02360},
  year   = {2016}
}

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39 pages, 17 figures, revised version