Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions
Abstract
Local chiral effective field theory interactions have recently been developed and used in the context of quantum Monte Carlo few- and many-body methods for nuclear physics. In this work, we go over detailed features of local chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions and examine their effect on properties of the deuteron, paying special attention to the perturbativeness of the expansion. We then turn to three-nucleon interactions, focusing on operator ambiguities and their interplay with regulator effects. We then discuss the nuclear Green's function Monte Carlo method, going over both wave-function correlations and approximations for the two- and three-body propagators. Following this, we present a range of results on light nuclei: Binding energies and distribution functions are contrasted and compared, starting from several different microscopic interactions.
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@article{arxiv.1706.07668,
title = {Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions},
author = {J. E. Lynn and I. Tews and J. Carlson and S. Gandolfi and A. Gezerlis and K. E. Schmidt and A. Schwenk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07668},
year = {2017}
}
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21 pages, 14 figures, published version, Editor's Suggestion