Zone Determinant Expansions for Nuclear Lattice Simulations

Abstract

We introduce a new approximation to nucleon matrix determinants that is physically motivated by chiral effective theory. The method involves breaking the lattice into spatial zones and expanding the determinant in powers of the boundary hopping parameter.

20 pages, 6 figures, revtex4 (version to appear in PRC)

References in corpus (4)

• Three-Nucleon Forces from Chiral Effective Field Theory
• Critical Temperature for the Nuclear Liquid-Gas Phase Transition
• Determinant Approximations
• Massless QED_3 with explicit fermions

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• Nuclear Lattice Simulations with Chiral Effective Field Theory
• An Introduction to Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice
• Determinant Approximations
• Lattice gas models derived from effective field theory
• Nuclear Lattice Simulations with EFT