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Local chiral effective field theory interactions and quantum Monte Carlo applications

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-27 v2 Quantum Gases High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present details of the derivation of local chiral effective field theory interactions to next-to-next-to-leading order, and show results for nucleon-nucleon phase shifts and deuteron properties for these potentials. We then perform systematic auxiliary-field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations for neutron matter based on the developed local chiral potentials at different orders. This includes studies of the effects of the spectral-function regularization and of the local regulators. For all orders, we compare the quantum Monte Carlo results with perturbative many-body calculations and find excellent agreement for low cutoffs.

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@article{arxiv.1406.0454,
  title  = {Local chiral effective field theory interactions and quantum Monte Carlo applications},
  author = {A. Gezerlis and I. Tews and E. Epelbaum and M. Freunek and S. Gandolfi and K. Hebeler and A. Nogga and A. Schwenk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0454},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 11 figures, published version, LA-UR-14-23894