AbInitioAb Initio calculations of medium-mass nuclei with explicit chiral 3N3N interactions

Nov, 2012
6 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 87 (2013) 2, 021303
  • Published: Feb 21, 2013
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Abstract: (APS)
We present the first ab initio coupled-cluster calculations of medium-mass nuclei with explicit chiral three-nucleon (3N) interactions. Using a spherical formulation of coupled cluster with singles and doubles excitations including explicit 3N contributions, we study ground states of 16,24O, 40,48Ca, and 56Ni. We employ chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) plus 3N interactions softened through a similarity renormalization group (SRG) transformation at the three-body level. We investigate the impact of all truncations and quantify the resulting uncertainties—this includes the contributions from triple excitations, the truncation of the set of three-body matrix elements, and the omission of SRG-induced four-body interactions. Furthermore, we assess the quality of a normal-ordering approximation of the 3N interaction beyond light nuclei. Our study points towards the predictive power of chiral Hamiltonians in the medium-mass regime.
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  • 6 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
  • 21.60.De
  • 21.30.-x
  • 21.45.Ff
  • 05.10.Cc