Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of light and medium-mass nuclei with local chiral interactions

作者:Lonardoni D*; Gandolfi S; Lynn J E; Petrie C; Carlson J; Schmidt K E; Schwenk A
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW C, 2018, 97(4): 044318.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.044318

摘要

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 diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm for nuclei in combination with local chiral two-and three-nucleon interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We show results for the binding energy, charge radius, charge form factor, and Coulomb sum rule in nuclei with 3 <= A <= 16. Particular attention is devoted to the effect of different operator structures in the three-body force for different cutoffs. The outcomes suggest that local chiral interactions fit to few-body observables give a very good description of the ground-state properties of nuclei up to O-16, with the exception of one fit for the softer cutoff which predicts over binding in larger nuclei.

  • 出版日期2018-4-24
  • 单位Los Alamos