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Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have significantly enlarged the accessible part of the nuclear landscape via ab initio many-body calculations. These developments open new ways for microscopic studies of light, medium-mass and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-07 Kai Hebeler

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

We calculate the equation of state of neutron matter with realistic two- and three-nucleon interactions using quantum Monte Carlo techniques, and illustrate that the short-range three-neutron interaction determines the correlation between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-15 S. Gandolfi , J. Carlson , Sanjay Reddy

Three-nucleon interactions are a frontier in understanding and predicting the structure of strongly-interacting matter in laboratory nuclei and in the cosmos. We present results and discuss the status of first calculations with microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-11 A. Schwenk , J. D. Holt

We investigate single-particle properties in infinite nuclear matter using a variety of interactions. One of the focal points is to study the impact of chiral three-nucleon forces on the nucleon self-energy and related quantities, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-10 Francesca Sammarruca , Herbert Muether , Ruprecht Machleidt

We probe nuclear multipole resonances in the framework of the random-phase approximation by using the interaction obtained from the chiral effective field theory. The three-nucleon force is included in a form of the in-medium two-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 B. S. Hu , Q. Wu , Q. Yuan , Y. Z. Ma , X. Q. Yan , F. R. Xu

Relativistic nuclear collisions have emerged as a new tool for probing many-body correlations of nucleons in the ground states of atomic nuclei. Here, we investigate the connection between three-nucleon correlations inside nuclei and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Hadi Mehrabpour , Giuliano Giacalone , Matthew W. Luzum

The nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) potential is the residual interaction of the strong interaction in the low-energy region and is also the fundamental input to the study of atomic nuclei. Based on the non-perturbative properties of the quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-02 Ke Nan , Jinniu Hu , Hong Shen , Ying Zhang

We consider subleading contributions to the three-nucleon force from tree-level diagrams involving a single-pion exchange and a contact interaction between two nucleons, which appear at fifth order in the chiral expansion. We show that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Henri Paul Huesmann , Hermann Krebs , Evgeny Epelbaum

The properties of symmetric nuclear and pure neutron matter are investigated within an extended self-consistent Green's function method that includes the effects of three-body forces. We use the ladder approximation for the study of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Arianna Carbone , Arnau Rios , Artur Polls

Relations between the nuclear symmetry energy coefficient and its density derivatives are derived. The relations hold for a class of interactions with quadratic momentum dependence and a power-law density dependence. The structural…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-25 C. Mondal , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , M. Centelles , X. Viñas

This work is focused on the analysis of the corrective effects of the temperature, surface tension, and nuclear matter density on the fusion barriers and also fusion cross sections caused by the original version of the proximity formalism…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-09 Reza Gharaei , Elham Sarvari

We present a new two-body finite-range and momentum-dependent but density-independent effective interaction, which can be interpreted as a regularized zero-range force. We show that no three-body or density-dependent terms are needed for a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 K. Bennaceur , J. Dobaczewski , F. Raimondi

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

Recently, new quark mass dependent three-nucleon (3N) forces have been identified, whose contributions in nuclear matter exceed expectations of Weinberg power-counting arguments. In this work, we investigate the impact of the most dominant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Urban Vernik , Kai Hebeler , Achim Schwenk

The influence of the core polarization on the effective nuclear interaction of asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated in the framework of the induced interaction theory. The strong isospin dependence of the density and spin density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 S. S. Zhang , L. G. Cao , U. Lombardo , P. Schuck

Although ab-initio calculations of relativistic Brueckner theory lead to large scalar isovector fields in nuclear matter, at present, successful versions of covariant density functional theory neglect the interactions in this channel. A new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-09 X. Roca-Maza , X. Viñas , M. Centelles , P. Ring , P. Schuck

High density behaviour of nuclear symmetry energy is studied on the basis of a stiffest density dependence of asymmetric contribution to energy per nucleon in charge neutral $n+p+e+\mu$ matter under beta equilibrium. The density dependence…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 B Behera , T R Routray , S K Tripathy

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have recently been employed to study properties of nuclei and infinite matter using local chiral effective field theory interactions. In this work, we present a detailed description of the auxiliary field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 D. Lonardoni , S. Gandolfi , J. E. Lynn , C. Petrie , J. Carlson , K. E. Schmidt , A. Schwenk

The double folding (DF) approach is one of the widely used methods for finding nucleus-nucleus interaction potential. In the present work, the influence of the nuclear matter density on the DF potential and on the Coulomb barrier parameters…