Particles (Nov 2020)

Spin Susceptibility in Neutron Matter from Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations

  • Luca Riz,
  • Francesco Pederiva,
  • Diego Lonardoni,
  • Stefano Gandolfi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/particles3040046
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 706 – 718

Abstract

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The spin susceptibility in pure neutron matter is computed from auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations over a wide range of densities. The calculations are performed for different spin asymmetries, while using twist-averaged boundary conditions to reduce finite-size effects. The employed nuclear interactions include both the phenomenological Argonne AV8′ + UIX potential and local interactions that are derived from chiral effective field theory up to next-to-next-to-leading order.

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