Density functionals for nuclei usually include an effective 3-body interaction that depends on a fractional power of the density. Using insights from the many-body theory of the low-density two-component Fermi gas, we consider a new, nonlocal, form for the energy functional that is consistent with the Fock-space representation of interaction operators. In particular, there is a unique spatially nonlocal generalization of the contact form of the interaction that preserves the ρ(7/3) density dependence required by the many-body theory. We calculate the ground-state energies for particles in a harmonic trap by using the nonlocal induced 3-body interaction and compare them to numerically accurate Green's function Monte Carlo calculations. Using no free parameters, we find that a nonlocality in the space domain provides a better description of the weak-coupling regime than the local-density approximation.
The formalism based on correlated basis functions and the cluster-expansion technique has been recently employed to derive an effective interaction from a realistic nuclear Hamiltonian. To gauge the reliability of this scheme, we perform a systematic comparison between the results of its application to the Fermi hard-sphere system and the predictions obtained from low-density expansions, as well as from other many-body techniques. The analysis of a variety of properties, including the ground-state energy, the effective mass, and the momentum distribution, shows that the effective-interaction approach is quite accurate, thus suggesting that it may be employed to achieve a consistent description of the structure and dynamics of nuclear matter in the density region relevant to astrophysical applications.
The dependence upon momentum
k and upon energy
E of the self-energy of a dilute Fermi gas is studied up to terms of order
(kFc)2, where
kF denotes the Fermi momentum and
c is the positive scattering length. Algebraic expressions are derived for the imaginary part
W(k;E) of the self-energy in the whole (
k,
E) plane. They are compared with a conjecture recently made by Orland and Schaeffer in their analysis of single-particle states in nuclei. The contributions of core polarization and of ground state correlations to the real part
V(k;E) of the self-energy are calculated with the help of subtracted dispersion relations which connect them with $W(k;{E}^{\ensuremath{'}})$. Algebraic expressions are derived for the momentum distribution in the correlated ground state. It is shown that the effective mass of a quasiparticle with momentum
k is equal to the bare particle mass at
k=0 and reaches a local maximum for
k close to
kF. This maximum is ascribed to the dependence of
V(k;E) upon
E, which is described in terms of an
E mass. We compute the contributions of core polarization and of ground state correlations to this
E mass. The dependence of
V(k;E) upon
k reflects the nonlocality of the self-energy. It is characterized by a
k mass that we also calculate. These results shed light on some nuclear matter properties and on the meaningfulness and limitation of nuclear matter calculations that have recently been performed in the framework of the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation.NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Effective mass near the Fermi surface in dilute Fermi gas model.
The methods of quantum statistics previously developed by the author are applied to the determination of properties of the ground state of nuclear matter. An expansion in powers of the pair-function of quantum statistics is made and expressions are derived for the momentum distribution, pair-correlation function, binding energy, and effective single-particle energies. The leading terms of these expressions can be interpreted in terms of an effective two-body interaction, and a model of nuclear matter which consists of interacting quasi-particles whose energies are the effective single-particle energies is thereby suggested. The theory is compared with Brueckner's theory and also with Landau's phenomenological theory of the Fermi liquid.
In the unitary regime, fermions interact strongly via two-body potentials that exhibit a zero range and a (negative) infinite scattering length. The energy density is proportional to the energy density of the free Fermi gas with a proportionality constant $\ensuremath{\xi}$. The author uses a simple density functional parametrized by an effective mass and the universal constant $\ensuremath{\xi}$, and employs Kohn-Sham density-functional theory to obtain the parameters from fit to one exactly solvable two-body problem. This yields $\ensuremath{\xi}=0.42$ and a rather large effective mass. The form of the density functional is checked by similar Kohn-Sham calculations for the exactly solvable Calogero model.
We extend the projection operator method combined with the coherent potential approximation (CPA) to the nonlocal case in order to describe the momentum dependence of the single-particle self-energy. The inter-site excitations are taken into account successively by means of an incremental cluster expansion. The cluster memory functions embedded in a medium are obtained by extending a renormalized perturbation scheme. The medium is self-consistently determined from a CPA condition. In the weak Coulomb interaction limit the self-energy reduces to the second-order perturbation theory, but it is also correct in the atomic limit. Numerical calculations are performed for a Hubbard model at half filling on a simple-cubic lattice. It is demonstrated that the
k-dependent self-energy reduces the quasiparticle density of states at the Fermi level, and broadens the band. Furthermore, in the metallic region it produces well-defined satellite bands around the $\ensuremath{\Gamma}$ and R points in the Brillouin zone. The momentum-dependent effective mass and the momentum distribution are also presented. The critical Coulomb interaction for the divergence of the effective mass is estimated to be at least twice as large as the one obtained in the single-site approximation.