Published January 1, 2020 | Version v1
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Ab Initio Nuclear Thermodynamics

  • 1. Karamanoglu Mehmetbey Univ, Fac Engn, TR-70100 Karaman, Turkey
  • 2. Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
  • 3. Ruhr Univ Bochum, Inst Theoret Phys 2, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

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We propose a new Monte Carlo method called the pinhole trace algorithm for ab initio calculations of the thermodynamics of nuclear systems. For typical simulations of interest, the computational speedup relative to conventional grand-canonical ensemble calculations can be as large as a factor of one thousand. Using a leading-order effective interaction that reproduces the properties of many atomic nuclei and neutron matter to a few percent accuracy, we determine the location of the critical point and the liquid-vapor coexistence line for symmetric nuclear matter with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. We also present the first ab initio study of the density and temperature dependence of nuclear clustering.

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