Coulomb tunneling for fusion reactions in dense matter: Path integral Monte Carlo versus mean field

A. I. Chugunov, H. E. DeWitt, D. G. Yakovlev

We compare Path Integral Monte Carlo calculations by Militzer and Pollock (Phys. Rev. B 71, 134303, 2005) of Coulomb tunneling in nuclear reactions in dense matter to semiclassical…