Quantum Monte Carlo study of inhomogeneous neutron matter
Abstract
We present an ab-initio study of neutron drops. We use Quantum Monte Carlo techniques to calculate the energy up to 54 neutrons in different external potentials, and we compare the results with Skyrme forces. We also calculate the rms radii and radial densities, and we find that a re-adjustment of the gradient term in Skyrme is needed in order to reproduce the properties of these systems given by the ab-initio calculation. By using the ab-initio results for neutron drops for close- and open-shell configurations, we suggest how to improve Skyrme forces when dealing with systems with large isospin-asymmetries like neutron-rich nuclei.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.6528,
title = {Quantum Monte Carlo study of inhomogeneous neutron matter},
author = {Stefano Gandolfi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6528},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures, talk given at Horizons on Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics 2012, (HITES2012), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4-7, 2012; to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)