Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2007-08-19
Phys.Rev.C79:054002,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
50 pages, 23 figures, to appear in Physical Review C
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.79.054002
Thermal properties of low-density neutron matter are investigated by determinantal quantum Monte Carlo lattice calculations on 3+1 dimensional cubic lattices. Nuclear effective field theory (EFT) is applied using the pionless single- and two-parameter neutron-neutron interactions, determined from the $^1S_0$ scattering length and effective range. The determination of the interactions and the calculations of neutron matter are carried out consistently by applying EFT power counting rules. The thermodynamic limit is taken by the method of finite-size scaling, and the continuum limit is examined in the vanishing lattice filling limit. The $^1S_0$ pairing gap at $T \approx 0$ is computed directly from the off-diagonal long-range order of the spin pair-pair correlation function, and is found to be approximately 30% smaller than BCS calculations with the conventional nucleon-nucleon potentials. The critical temperature $T_c$ of the normal-to-superfluid phase transition and the pairing temperature scale $T^\ast$ are determined, and the temperature-density phase diagram is constructed. The physics of low-density neutron matter is clearly identified as being a BCS-Bose-Einstein condensation crossover.
Abe Takuro
Seki Riki
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