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Annales de Physique

Modelling an infinite nucleonic system. Static and dynamical properties. Study of density fluctuations

D. Idier, M. Farine, B. Rémaud, F. Sébille

Published Jan 1, 1994• 22 citations
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Abstract

For one decade, several fields in physics as well microscopic as macroscopic benefit from the computational particle-models (astrophysics, electronics, fluids mechanics...). In particular, the nuclear matter offers an interesting challenge as many body problem, owing to the quantal nature of its components and the complexity of the in-medium interaction. Using a model derived from semi-classical Vlasov equation and the projection of the Wigner function on a Gaussian coherent states basis (pseudo-particles), static and dynamical properties of nuclear matter are studied, featuring the growing of bulk instabilities in dilute matter. Using different zero and finite range effective interactions, the effect of the model parameters upon the relation total energy - density - temperature and surface energy of the pseudo-particles fluid is pointed out. The dynamical feature is first based upon a model of the 2-body Uehling-Ulhenbeck collisionnal term. A study of the relaxation of a nucleonic system is performed. At last, the pseudo-particle model is used in order to extract time scale for the growing of density fluctuations. This process is supposed to be a possible way to clusterization during heavy nuclei collisions.

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10.1051/anphys:01994001902015900

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For one decade, several fields in physics as well microscopic as macroscopic benefit from the computational particle-models (astrophysics, electronics, fluids mechanics...). In particular, the nuclear matter offers an interesting challenge as many body problem, owing to the quantal nature of its components and the complexity of the in-medium interaction. Using a model derived from semi-classical Vlasov equation and the projection of the Wigner function on a Gaussian coherent states basis (pseudo-particles), static and dynamical properties of nuclear matter are studied, featuring the growing of bulk instabilities in dilute matter. Using different zero and finite range effective interactions, the effect of the model parameters upon the relation total energy - density - temperature and surface energy of the pseudo-particles fluid is pointed out. The dynamical feature is first based upon a model of the 2-body Uehling-Ulhenbeck collisionnal term. A study of the relaxation of a nucleonic system is performed. At last, the pseudo-particle model is used in order to extract time scale for the growing of density fluctuations. This process is supposed to be a possible way to clusterization during heavy nuclei collisions.
The equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter is addressed starting both from a realistic interaction derived from nucleon-nucleon scattering processes and from a low-momentum effective potential. The approach is based on finite temperature Green’s functions. The internal energy per particle is estimated from the summation of diagrams and through the Galitskii-Koltun’s sum rule. At present, there is not a unique and reliable theory of nuclear interactions. From the study of nucleon-nucleon scattering processes different models for the basic interaction between nucleons have been developed, but difficulties arise when they are used in calculations which aim to reproduce the properties of bound nuclei. These models all reproduce the experimental N-N phase shifts up to the threshold for pion production with high accuracy, but differ in the short-wavelength region, where less experimental constraints are available. In deriving the properties of dense nuclear matter, if we start from a bare N-N potential we have to take into account the complex correlations induced
Abstract This chapter discusses the significance of two body interactions to many-body properties, beginning with a schematic model showing the relevance of short-range correlations beyond those of the Fermi gas. These correlations are studied within Brueckner theory and the help of the Bethe-Goldstone equation, mainly for nuclear matter proper but extensions to finite temperature are presented. Effective forces of Skyrme type are derived through an expansion of the G-matrix to small relative momenta. This scheme hinges essentially on the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation, for which results for binding energy and equilibrium density are presented. An alternative variational method based on Jastrow functions is sketched, which demonstrates the necessity for considering effective three body forces. The concept of the nuclear equation of state is presented and parameterized by Skyrme forces with density dependent parameters. Finally, a semi-classical transport theory is presented which accounts for statistical collisions of the nucleons.
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Abstract The main task of microscopic many-body theory is to provide an understanding and an explanation of properties of macroscopic systems from no other information than the properties of the underlying Hamiltonian, the particle statistics, and the macroscopic geometry of the system. Variational wave functions have been a very successful technique for examining the ground state and dynamic properties of dense quantum fluids. Specifically the “optimized (Fermi)-hypernetted chain” ((F)HNC-EL) hierarchy of approximations reproduces, for simple interactions like electrons and quantum fluids, the most basic features of a self-bound many-body system, namely binding, saturation, and spinodal decomposition. The relationships between Green’s functions based perturbation theory and variational wave functions have been clarified in much detail in the past. In the language of Feynman diagrams, a self-consistent summation of ring- and ladder-diagrams is the minimum requirement for a satisfactory microscopic description of these basic features. Realistic nucleon–nucleon interactions pose further problems: The most difficult aspect of the nuclear many-body problem is caused by the form of the microscopic nucleon–nucleon interaction which depends at least on the spin, isospin, the relative orientation and angular momentum of the interacting particles. Simple variational methods as used for electrons and quantum fluids are inadequate. Correlation functions that have the same structure as the interactions lead to so-called “commutator diagrams” that have, so far, been mostly neglected. We have shown in the past that these corrections can be very important if the two-body interactions are very different in different spin- or isospin channels. To deal with the problem of realistic nuclear interactions we have combined techniques of the Jastrow–Feenberg variational method and the local parquet-diagram theory. In the language of diagrammatic perturbation theory, “commutator diagrams” can be identified with non-parquet diagrams. We examine the physical processes described by these terms and include the relevant diagrams in a way that is suggested by the Jastrow–Feenberg approach. We show that the corrections from non-parquet contributions are, at short distances, larger than all other many-body effects. We examine here neutron matter as a prototype of systems with state-dependent interactions. Calculations are carried out for neutrons interacting via the so-called v8v_8v8​ v 8 version of four popular interactions. We determine the structure and effective interactions and apply the method to the calculation of the energetics, structure and dynamic properties such as the single-particle self-energy and the dynamic response functions as well as BCS pairing in both singlet and triplet states. We find that many-body correlations lead to a strong reduction of the spin-orbit interaction, and, therefore, to a suppression of the 3P2^3\textrm{P}_23P2​ 3 P 2 and 3P2^3\textrm{P}_23P2​ 3 P 2 - 3F2^3\textrm{F}_23F2​ 3 F 2 gaps. We also find pairing in 3P0^3\textrm{P}_03P0​ 3 P 0 states; the strength of the pairing gap depends sensitively on the potential model employed.