Covariance analysis of finite temperature density functional theory: symmetric nuclear matter
arXiv:1407.3932 · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/42/3/034005
Abstract
We study symmetric nuclear matter at finite temperature, with particular emphasis on the liquid-gas phase transition. We use a standard covariance analysis to propagate statistical uncertainties from the density functional to the thermodynamic properties. We use four functionals with known covariance matrices to obtain as wide a set of results as possible. Our findings suggest that thermodynamical properties are very well constrained by fitting data at zero temperature. The propagated statistical errors in the liquid-gas phase transition parameters are relatively small.
13 pages, 4 figures. Accepted version in JPhysG Focus issue "Enhancing the interaction between nuclear experiment and theory through information and statistics"
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