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We present the Monte Carlo event generator KK version 4.13 for precision predictions of the Electroweak Standard Model for the process $e^+e^-\to f\bar{f} +n\gamma$, $f=\mu,\tau,d,u,s,c,b$ at centre of mass energies from $\tau$ lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-24 S. Jadach , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

We present variational Monte Carlo calculations of the neutron matter equation of state using chiral nuclear forces. The ground-state wavefunction of neutron matter, containing non-perturbative many-body correlations, is obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-06 G. Wlazłowski , J. W. Holt , S. Moroz , A. Bulgac , K. J. Roche

The Short-Time approximation is a method introduced to evaluate electroweak nuclear response for systems with $A\geq12$, extending the reach of first-principle many-body Quantum Monte Carlo calculations. Using realistic two- and three-body…

We discuss finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods in the framework of the interacting nuclear shell model. The methods are based on a representation of the imaginary-time many-body propagator as a superposition of one-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. Alhassid

The Quantum Monte Carlo method for spin 1/2 fermions at finite temperature is formulated for dilute systems with an s-wave interaction. The motivation and the formalism are discussed along with descriptions of the algorithm and various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-05 Aurel Bulgac , Joaquin E. Drut , Piotr Magierski

We develop a Monte Carlo framework to analyze the statistics of quantum work in correlated electron systems. Using the Ising-Kondo model in heavy fermions as a paradigmatic platform, we thoroughly illustrate the process of determining the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-23 Qian-Xi Zhao , Jian-Jun Dong , Zi-Xiang Hu

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate various ground state properties of charged bosons in two dimensions, throughout the whole density range where the fluid phase is stable. Wigner crystallization is predicted at $r_s\simeq…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-01 S. De Palo , S. Conti , S. Moroni

Energy levels and electromagnetic properties of with $N=28\sim 30$ nuclides are studied in terms of a large-scale shell model calculation, which contains no newly adjusted parameters. The Kuo-Brown $G$-matrix interaction is shown to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Hitoshi Nakada , Takashi Sebe , Takaharu Otsuka

We present the first quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations with chiral effective field theory (EFT) interactions. To achieve this, we remove all sources of nonlocality, which hamper the inclusion in QMC calculations, in nuclear forces to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Gezerlis , I. Tews , E. Epelbaum , S. Gandolfi , K. Hebeler , A. Nogga , A. Schwenk

We calculate properties of dipolar interacting ultracold molecules or Rydberg atoms in a semi-synthetic three-dimensional configuration -- one synthetic dimension plus a two-dimensional real space optical lattice or periodic microtrap array…

We present an accurate numerical study of the equation of state of nuclear matter based on realistic nucleon--nucleon interactions by means of Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) calculations. The AFDMC method samples the spin and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Gandolfi , Francesco Pederiva , Stefano Fantoni , Kevin E. Schmidt

Compact and accurate wave functions can be constructed by quantum Monte Carlo methods. Typically, these wave functions consist of a sum of a small number of Slater determinants multiplied by a Jastrow factor. In this paper we study the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Chien-Jung Huang , C. J. Umrigar , M. P. Nightingale

The Monte Carlo program KoralW version 1.42 is presented. It generates all four-fermion final states with multibranch dedicated Monte Carlo pre-samplers and complete, massive, Born matrix elements. The presamplers cover the entire phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jadach , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

In view of the forthcoming experiments at high energy $e^+ e^-$ colliders, LEP2 and beyond, the process $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^- \to 4f$ has been investigated for {\it off-shell} $W$'s. After deriving the matrix element for the process within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , G. Passarino , F. Piccinini

We report the first calculations of cross sections for the radiative capture reactions t(alpha,gamma)^7Li and ^3He(alpha,gamma)^7Be below 2 MeV which use wave functions derived from realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions by the variational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Kenneth M. Nollett

Quantum Monte Carlo methods find fruitful application in large shell model problems. These methods reduce the imaginary-time many-body evolution operator to a coherent superposition of one-body evolutions in a fluctuating one-body field;…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 S. E. Koonin

We calculate the magnetic moments of light nuclei ($A < 20$) using the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method and local two- and three-nucleon forces with electromagnetic currents from chiral effective field theory. For all nuclei…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 J. D. Martin , S. J. Novario , D. Lonardoni , J. Carlson , S. Gandolfi , I. Tews

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proven to be valuable in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, particularly nuclear physics and cold atomic gases. Historically, such ab initio simulations have been used to study properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-26 J. Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

All-electron variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the ground state energies of the first row atoms (Li to Ne) are reported. We use trial wavefunctions of four types: single determinant Slater-Jastrow wavefunctions;…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-22 Matthew Brown , John Robert Trail , Pablo Lopez Rios , Richard Needs

I discuss our recent work on Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) calculations of light nuclei using local nucleon-nucleon interactions derived from chiral effective field theory (EFT) up to next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^2$LO). I present…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 J. E. Lynn