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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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-07 J. E. Lynn , I. Tews , J. Carlson , S. Gandolfi , A. Gezerlis , K. E. Schmidt , A. Schwenk

We present calculations of electronic and magnetic structures of vanadium-benzene multidecker clusters V$_{n}$Bz$_{n+1}$ ($n$ = 1 - 3) using advanced quantum Monte Carlo methods. These and related systems have been identified as prospective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Horváthová , R. Derian , L. Mitas , I. Štich

The conventional second-order Path Integral Monte Carlo method is plagued with the sign problem in solving many-fermion systems. This is due to the large number of anti-symmetric free fermion propagators that are needed to extract the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Siu A. Chin

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations for fermions are becoming the standard to provide high quality reference data in systems that are too large to be investigated via quantum chemical approaches. DMC with the fixed-node approximation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrea Zen , Sandro Sorella , Michael J. Gillan , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

Using a random-matrix approach and Monte-Carlo simulations, we generate scattering matrices and cross sections for compound-nucleus reactions. In the absence of direct reactions we compare the average cross sections with the analytic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-03 T. Kawano , P. Talou , H. A. Weidenmüller

We develop an extension of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm - multistate, contracted VQE (MC-VQE) - that allows for the efficient computation of the transition energies between the ground state and several low-lying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert M. Parrish , Edward G. Hohenstein , Peter L. McMahon , Todd J. Martinez

At present paper we performed a detailed numerical analysis of four charged leptons photoproduction in frame of standard theory of electroweak interaction. Total and differential cross sections are obtained by using of the Monte-Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. Sotsky

The nuclear matrix elements for the momentum quadrupole operator are important for the interpretation of precision atomic physics experiments that search for violations of local Lorentz and CPT symmetry and for new spin-dependent forces. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 B. A. Brown , G. F. Bertsch , L. M. Robledo , M. V. Romalis , V. Zelevinsky

We develop a formalism for calculating the distribution of the axial quadrupole operator in the laboratory frame within the rotationally invariant framework of the configuration-interaction shell model. The calculation is carried out using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 C. N. Gilbreth , Y. Alhassid , G. F. Bertsch

We report diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations on MgO in the rock-salt and CsCl structures. The calculations are based on Hartree-Fock pseudopotentials, with the single-particle orbitals entering the correlated wave function being…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-16 D. Alfè , M. Alfredsson , J. Brodholt , M. J. Gillan M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs

Experimental momentum distributions for the transitions to the ground state and first excited state of 6He have been measured via the reaction 7Li(e,e'p)6He, in the missing momentum range from -70 to 260 MeV/c. They are compared to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Lapikas , J. Wessling , R. B. Wiringa

Transition wavelengths and rates are given for E1, E2, M1, and M2 transitions between singlet and triplet S, P, D, and F states in heliumlike ions of astrophysical interest: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, silicon, and argon. All possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. M. Savukov , W. R. Johnson , U. I. Safronova

Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) calculations of the properties of the zero-temperature fermionic gas at unitarity are reported. The ratio of the energy of the interacting to the non-interacting gas for a system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-26 Andrew J. Morris , P. Lopez Rios , R. J. Needs

We present an update on our calculations of the matrix elements of the CP violating quark and gluon chromo-EDM operators, as well as the operators these mix with, such as the QCD Theta-term. Their contribution to the neutron EDM is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-18 Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Boram Yoon , Rajan Gupta , Vincenzo Cirigliano

The Magn\'eli phase Ti$_4$O$_7$ is an important transition metal oxide with a wide range of applications because of its interplay between charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom. At low temperatures, it has non-trivial magnetic states…

Employing the projected-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (PHFB) model in conjunction with four different parametrizations of pairing plus multipolar effective two body interaction and three different parametrizations of Jastrow short range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 Yash Kaur Singh , R. Chandra , K. Chaturvedi , Tripti Avasthi , P. K. Raina , P. K. Rath

We compute the matrix elements for elastic scattering of dark matter (DM) particles off light nuclei ($^2$H, $^3$H, $^3$He, $^4$He and $^6$Li) using quantum Monte Carlo methods. We focus on scalar-mediated DM-nucleus interactions and use…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-13 Lorenzo Andreoli , Vincenzo Cirigliano , Stefano Gandolfi , Francesco Pederiva

A comprehensive analysis of the structure of the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) of neutrinoless double beta-minus decays to the 0^+ ground and first excited states is performed in terms of the contributing multipole states in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-07 Juhani Hyvärinen , Jouni Suhonen

We review the use of continuum quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for the calculation of energy gaps from first principles, and present a broad set of excited-state calculations carried out with the variational and fixed-node diffusion QMC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Ryan J. Hunt , Marcin Szyniszewski , Genki I. Prayogo , Ryo Maezono , Neil D. Drummond

A Path Integral Monte Carlo method is used to investigate the thermodynamics of nuclear like systems. Systems composed of bosons or fermions interracting via a Lennard-Jones potential with periodic boundary conditions were simulated and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-09-02 A. H. Raduta