Jul 22 – 28, 2018
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
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Ab initio calculations of nuclear thermodynamics

Jul 27, 2018, 3:00 PM
20m
Centennial (Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center)

Centennial

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center

219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824
Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero Temperature and Density

Speaker

Dr Bingnan Lu (Michigan State University)

Description

We present the first ab initio calculations of nuclei and nuclear matter at finite temperature. Using lattice Monte Carlo simulations and chiral effective field theory, we probe the thermal properties of nuclear systems from first principles. We find that the pinhole algorithm, initially developed for extracting nucleon densities, is well suited for computing the canonical partition function. We employ a chiral nuclear force fitted to nucleon-nucleon scattering data on the lattice and calculate a variety of thermodynamic quantities for light nuclei, dilute neutron matter, and dilute nuclear matter, such as the free energy, entropy, and specific heat. The pinhole algorithm is found to largely alleviate the sign problem, which prevented previous attempts in this direction.

Primary author

Dr Bingnan Lu (Michigan State University)

Co-authors

Prof. Dean Lee (Michigan State University) Dr Ning Li (NSCL/FRIB, Michigan State University) Dr Serdar Elhatisari (Bonn University)

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