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Curry R, Dissanayake J, Gandolfi S, Gezerlis A. Auxiliary field Quantum Monte Carlo for dilute neutrons on the lattice. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2024; 382:20230127. [PMID: 38910455 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2023.0127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/25/2024]
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We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the Hubbard model, we benchmark our method against published results for both one- and two-dimensional Hubbard model calculations. We then turn our attention to cold atomic and nuclear systems. We use an onsite contact interaction that can be tuned in order to reproduce the known scattering length and effective range of a given interaction. Developing this machinery allows us to extend our calculations to study nuclear systems within a lattice formalism. We perform initial calculations for a range of nuclear systems from two- to few-body neutron systems. This article is part of the theme issue 'The liminal position of Nuclear Physics: from hadrons to neutron stars'.
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- Ryan Curry
- Department of Physics, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Translating Neutron Star Observations to Nuclear Symmetry Energy via Deep Neural Networks. GALAXIES 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/galaxies10010016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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One of the most significant challenges involved in efforts to understand the equation of state of dense neutron-rich matter is the uncertain density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. In particular, the nuclear symmetry energy is still rather poorly constrained, especially at high densities. On the other hand, detailed knowledge of the equation of state is critical for our understanding of many important phenomena in the nuclear terrestrial laboratories and the cosmos. Because of its broad impact, pinning down the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy has been a long-standing goal of both nuclear physics and astrophysics. Recent observations of neutron stars, in both electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectra, have already constrained significantly the nuclear symmetry energy at high densities. The next generation of telescopes and gravitational-wave observatories will provide an unprecedented wealth of detailed observations of neutron stars, which will improve further our knowledge of the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy, and the underlying equation of state of dense neutron-rich matter. Training deep neural networks to learn a computationally efficient representation of the mapping between astrophysical observables of neutron stars, such as masses, radii, and tidal deformabilities, and the nuclear symmetry energy allows its density dependence to be determined reliably and accurately. In this work, we use a deep learning approach to determine the nuclear symmetry energy as a function of density directly from observational neutron star data. We show, for the first time, that artificial neural networks can precisely reconstruct the nuclear symmetry energy from a set of available neutron star observables, such as masses and radii as measured by, e.g., the NICER mission, or masses and tidal deformabilities as measured by the LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors. These results demonstrate the potential of artificial neural networks to reconstruct the symmetry energy and the equation of state directly from neutron star observational data, and emphasize the importance of the deep learning approach in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics.
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Richie-Halford A, Drut JE, Bulgac A. Emergence of a Pseudogap in the BCS-BEC Crossover. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:060403. [PMID: 32845679 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.060403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Strongly correlated Fermi systems with pairing interactions become superfluid below a critical temperature T_{c}. The extent to which such pairing correlations alter the behavior of the liquid at temperatures T>T_{c} is a subtle issue that remains an area of debate, in particular regarding the appearance of the so-called pseudogap in the BCS-BEC crossover of unpolarized spin-1/2 nonrelativistic matter. To shed light on this, we extract several quantities of crucial importance at and around the unitary limit, namely, the odd-even staggering of the total energy, the spin susceptibility, the pairing correlation function, the condensate fraction, and the critical temperature T_{c}, using a nonperturbative, constrained-ensemble quantum Monte Carlo algorithm.
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- Adam Richie-Halford
- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA
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Dawkins WG, Carlson J, van Kolck U, Gezerlis A. Clustering of Four-Component Unitary Fermions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:143402. [PMID: 32338952 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.143402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ab initio nuclear physics tackles the problem of strongly interacting four-component fermions. The same setting could foreseeably be probed experimentally in ultracold atomic systems, where two- and three-component experiments have led to major breakthroughs in recent years. Both due to the problem's inherent interest and as a pathway to nuclear physics, in this Letter we study four-component fermions at unitarity via the use of quantum Monte Carlo methods. We explore novel forms of the trial wave function and find one which leads to a ground state of the eight-particle system whose energy is almost equal to that of two four-particle systems. We investigate the clustering properties involved and also extrapolate to the zero-range limit. In addition to being experimentally testable, our results impact the prospects of developing nuclear physics as a perturbation around the unitary limit.
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- William G Dawkins
- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406 Orsay, France
- Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Buraczynski M, Ismail N, Gezerlis A. Nonperturbative Extraction of the Effective Mass in Neutron Matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:152701. [PMID: 31050497 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.152701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We carry out nonperturbative calculations of the single-particle excitation spectrum in strongly interacting neutron matter. These are microscopic quantum Monte Carlo computations of many-neutron energies at different densities as well as several distinct excited states. As input, we employ both phenomenological and chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions. We use the single-particle spectrum to extract the effective mass in neutron matter. With a view to systematizing the error involved in this extraction, we carefully assess the impact of finite-size effects on the quasiparticle dispersion relation. We find an effective-mass ratio that drops from 1 as the density is increased. We conclude by connecting our results with the physics of ultracold gases as well as with energy-density functional theories of nuclei and neutron-star matter.
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- Mateusz Buraczynski
- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Buraczynski M, Gezerlis A. Static Response of Neutron Matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:152501. [PMID: 27127963 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.152501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We generalize the problem of strongly interacting neutron matter by adding a periodic external modulation. This allows us to study from first principles a neutron system that is extended and inhomogeneous, with connections to the physics of both neutron-star crusts and neutron-rich nuclei. We carry out fully nonperturbative microscopic quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the energy of neutron matter at different densities, as well as different strengths and periodicities of the external potential. In order to remove systematic errors, we examine finite-size effects and the impact of the wave function ansatz. We also make contact with energy-density functional theories of nuclei and disentangle isovector gradient contributions from bulk properties. Finally, we calculate the static density-density linear response function of neutron matter and compare it with the response of other physical systems.
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Gezerlis A. Chiral 2N and 3N interactions and quantum Monte Carlo applications. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201611306019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Elhatisari S, Lee D, Rupak G, Epelbaum E, Krebs H, Lähde TA, Luu T, Meißner UG. Ab initio alpha–alpha scattering. Nature 2015; 528:111-4. [DOI: 10.1038/nature16067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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