Towards a nonequilibrium Green's function description of nuclear reactions
Arnau Rios, Brent Barker, Paweł Danielewicz
Semiclassical time-dependent approaches are nowadays able to describe energetic central collisions of heavy isotopes with minimal assumptions. Simulations in the mean-field picture have provided insight on both nuclear structure and low-energy many-body reaction mechanisms. In this context, nonequilibrium Greens functions techniques have the potential to improve the description of the time evolution of nuclear systems by introducing effects beyond the mean-field. We describe a first attempt to use the Kadanoff-Baym dynamics for one-dimensional nuclear systems, with a particular emphasis on the process of correlation buildup.
Journal of Physics Conference Series•Mar 27, 2013•1 citation