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We report ab initio calculations of the S wave pairing gap in neutron matter calculated using realistic nuclear Hamiltonians that include two- and three-body interactions. We use a trial state, properly optimized to capture the essential…

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We further progress along the line of Ref. [Phys. Rev. {\bf A 94}, 043614 (2016)] where a functional for Fermi systems with anomalously large $s$-wave scattering length $a_s$ was proposed that has no free parameters. The functional is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Denis Lacroix , Antoine Boulet , Marcella Grasso , C. -J. Yang

We study theoretically the di-neutron spatial correlations and the crossover from superfluidity of neutron Cooper pairs in the $^1S_0$ pairing channel to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of di-neutron pairs for both symmetric and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-07 Bao Yuan Sun , Hiroshi Toki , Jie Meng

The explicit energy dependence of the single particle self-energy (dispersive effects), due to short range correlations, is included in the treatment of neutron matter superfluidity. The method can be applied in general to strong…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Baldo , A. Grasso

We study the energy per particle of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter using realistic nucleon--nucleon potentials having non central tensor and spin--orbit components, up to three times the empirical nuclear matter saturation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Bombaci , A. Fabrocini , A. Polls , I. Vidana

In this work, we calculate the ground state energy of pure neutron matter using the renormalization group based low-momentum effective interaction $V_{\text{low-}k}$ in Bogoliubov many-body perturbation theory (BMBPT), which is a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-17 Viswanathan Palaniappan , S. Ramanan , Michael Urban

We present results for the equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter obtained in many-body-perturbation theory (MBPT) up to third order, based on various chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions used in ab…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Faruk Alp , Yannick Dietz , Kai Hebeler , Achim Schwenk

A nuclear density functional can be used to find the binding energy and shell structure of nuclei and the energy gap in superconducting nuclear matter. In this paper, we study the possible application of a nuclear density functional theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-08 Yeunhwan Lim

Within the minimum model of neutron stars (NS) consisting of neutrons, protons and electrons, a new approach is proposed for inferring the symmetry energy of super-dense neutron-rich nucleonic matter above twice the saturation density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Bao-An Li , Wen-Jie Xie

In this work we calculate the $^1S_0$ gap energies of $\Lambda$ hyperons in neutron star matter. The calculation is based on a solution of the BCS gap equation for an effective G-matrix parameterization of the $\Lambda-\Lambda$ interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Shmuel Balberg , Nir Barnea

An effective nucleon-nucleon interaction calculated in nuclear matter from the Bonn potential has been parametrized in terms of a local density- and energy-dependent two-body interaction. This allows to calculate the real part of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Bartnitzky , H. Clement , P. Czerski , H. Müther , F. Nuoffer , J. Siegler

Background: An accurate description of nuclear pairing gaps is extremely important for understanding static and dynamic properties of the inner crusts of neutron stars and to explain their cooling process. Purpose: We plan to study the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-24 S. Maurizio , J. W. Holt , P. Finelli

We calculate Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) state of a unitary Fermi gas of atoms interacting with the finite-ranged Jost-Kohn potential which has been recently shown to account for the resonant interactions [2019 {\rm J. Phys. B: At. Mol.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-05 Subhanka Mal , Bimalendu Deb

Based on the standard Skyrme energy density functionals together with the extended Thomas-Fermi approach, the properties of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter represented in two macroscopic-microscopic mass formulas: Lublin-Strasbourg…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Ning Wang , Min Liu , Li Ou , Yingxun Zhang

The properties of neutron matter are integral to the correct description of neutron stars as well as the description of neutron-rich nuclei. One key property of neutron matter is its superfluid behaviour in a range of densities relevant to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Georgios Palkanoglou , Fotis K. Diakonos , Alexandros Gezerlis

We calculate, for the first time, the state-dependent pairing gap of a finite nucleus (120Sn) diagonalizing the bare nucleon-nucleon potential (Argonne v14) in a Hartree-Fock basis (with effective k-mass m_k eqult to 0.7 m), within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Barranco , R. A. Broglia , G. Colo' , E. Vigezzi , P. F. Bortignon

A simple and efficient method to treat nuclear pairing correlations within a simple Hartree-Fock--plus-BCS description is proposed and discussed. It relies on the fact that the intensity of pairing correlations depends crucially on level…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-18 Meng-Hock Koh , Philippe Quentin

Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-28 Raghuveer Garani , Yoann Genolini , Thomas Hambye

The behavior of nuclear matter is studied at low densities and temperatures using classical molecular dynamics with three different sets of potentials with different compressibility. Nuclear matter is found to arrange in crystalline…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-13 C. O. Dorso , P. A. Giménez Molinelli , J. I. Nichols , J. A. López

Properties of the matter in the inner crust of a neutron star are investigated in a Hartree-Fock plus BCS approximation employing schematic effective forces of the type of the Skyrme forces. Special attention is paid to differences between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Montani , C. May , H. Müther