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We carry out an ab initio calculation of the neutrino flux-folded inclusive cross sections, measured on $^{12}$C by the MiniBooNE and T2K collaborations in the charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) regime. The calculation is based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-07 A. Lovato , J. Carlson , S. Gandolfi , N. Rocco , R. Schiavilla

The complete matrix elements for e^+ e^- -> 4f and e^+ e^- -> 4f + gamma are calculated in the Electroweak Standard Model for polarized massless fermions. The matrix elements for all final states are reduced to a few compact generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , D. Wackeroth

We have used the variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods to calculate the energy, pair correlation function, static structure factor, and momentum density of the ground state of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-02 N. D. Drummond , R. J. Needs

An ab initio quantum Monte Carlo method is introduced for calculating total rates of muon weak capture in light nuclei with mass number $A \leq 12$. As a first application of the method, we perform a calculation of the rate in $^4$He in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 A. Lovato , N. Rocco , R. Schiavilla

In recent years, the combination of precise quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods with realistic nuclear interactions and consistent electroweak currents, in particular those constructed within effective field theories (EFTs), has lead to new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 J. E. Lynn , I. Tews , S. Gandolfi , A. Lovato

A Monte Carlo simulator is presented to reproduce data of nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies. The program is designed in a microscopic point of view, where the cascade approach is applied. Moreover, each nucleon from both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Hassan , N. El-Harby , M. T. Hussein

Semiconductor artificial graphene nanostructures where Hubbard model parameter $U/t$ can be of the order of 100, provide a highly controllable platform to study strongly correlated quantum many-particle phases. We use accurate variational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Gökhan Öztarhan , E. Bulut Kul , Emre Okcu , A. D. Güçlü

We study the efficiency, precision and accuracy of all-electron variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations using Slater basis sets. Starting from wave functions generated by Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Norbert Nemec , Michael D. Towler , R. J. Needs

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the first-row atoms Li-Ne and their singly-positively-charged ions are reported. Multi-determinant-Jastrow-backflow trial wave functions are used which recover more than 98% of the correlation energy at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 P. Seth , P. López Ríos , R. J. Needs

Detailed numerical analysis of four charged leptons photoproduction in frame of standard theory of electroweak interaction is presented. Total and differential cross sections are obtained and investigated using the Monte-Carlo method of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Sotsky

Variational quantum Monte Carlo calculations are reported for the bulk GaAs semiconductor in order to present values for the ground-state energy, the lattice constant, the bulk modulus, and some derived properties. The statistical accuracy…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Eckstein , W. Schattke , M. Reigrotzki , R. Redmer

Atomic forces are calculated for first-row monohydrides and carbon monoxide within electronic quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Accurate and efficient forces are achieved by using an improved method for moving variational parameters in variational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Myung Won Lee , Massimo Mella , Andrew M. Rappe

Accurately predicting the formation energy of a compound, which describes its thermodynamic stability, is a key challenge in materials physics. Here, we employ many-body quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) with single-reference trial functions to…

In this article, we present a method for computing accurate and scalable nuclear forces within the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) framework. Our approach leverages automatic differentiation of the energy functional to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Jo S. Kurian , Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

The application of Glauber theory has been playing an increasingly important role with the study of unstable or exotic nuclei. Its adaptation to medium and high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions is severely limited because one has to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 W. Horiuchi , Y. Suzuki , R. B. Wiringa

The diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method is extended to solve the old theoretical physics problem of many-electron atoms and ions in intense magnetic fields. The feature of our approach is the use of adiabatic approximation wave functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bucheler , D. Engel , J. Main , G. Wunner

The structure of exotic nuclei provides valuable tests for state-of-the-art nuclear theory. In particular electromagnetic transition rates are more sensitive to aspects of nuclear forces and many-body physics than excitation energies alone.…

We computed ground-state energies of calcium isotopes from 42Ca to 48Ca by means of the Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) method. Calculations were performed by replacing the 40Ca core with a mean-field self consistent potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-03-19 S. Gandolfi , F. Pederiva , S. a Beccara

A method to calculate the mean squared matrix element of weak interaction between compound states is developed. The result is expressed in terms of matrix elements of the nucleon-nucleon strong and weak interactions times the Fermi…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-23 V. V. Flambaum , O. K. Vorov

Nuclei will play a prominent role in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model as the active material in experiments. In order to reliably interpret new physics signals, one needs an accurate model of the underlying nuclear dynamics.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-06 Garrett B. King , Saori Pastore