Lattice methods and the nuclear few- and many-body problem
Abstract
We begin with a brief overview of lattice calculations using chiral effective field theory and some recent applications. We then describe several methods for computing scattering on the lattice. After that we focus on the main goal, explaining the theory and algorithms relevant to lattice simulations of nuclear few- and many-body systems. We discuss the exact equivalence of four different lattice formalisms, the Grassmann path integral, transfer matrix operator, Grassmann path integral with auxiliary fields, and transfer matrix operator with auxiliary fields. Along with our analysis we include several coding examples and a number of exercises for the calculations of few- and many-body systems at leading order in chiral effective field theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.00421,
title = {Lattice methods and the nuclear few- and many-body problem},
author = {Dean Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00421},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Lect. Notes Phys., "An advanced course in computational nuclear physics: Bridging the scales from quarks to neutron stars", M. Hjorth-Jensen, M. P. Lombardo, U. van Kolck, Editors