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Pairing in pure neutron matter

Nuclear Theory 2021-06-14 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Quantum Gases

Abstract

We review the long standing problem of superfluid pairing in pure neutron matter. For the ss-wave pairing, we summarize the state of the art of many-body approaches including different nnnn interactions, medium polarization, short-range correlations and BCS-BEC crossover effects, and compare them with quantum Monte Carlo results at low-densities. We also address pairing in the pp-wave, which appears at higher densities and hence has large uncertainties due to the poorly constrained interactions, medium effects and many-body forces.

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@article{arxiv.2010.09632,
  title  = {Pairing in pure neutron matter},
  author = {S. Ramanan and M. Urban},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09632},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, Mini-review for EPJ Special Topics, v2: minor changes

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