Recent Developments in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem

The study of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) over the past quarter century has had relatively little impact on the traditional approach to the low-energy nuclear many-body problem. Recent developments are changing this situation. New experimental capabilities and theoretical approaches are opening windows into the richness of many-body phenomena in QCD. A common theme is the use of effective field theory (EFT) methods, which exploit the separation of scales in physical systems. At low energies, effective field theory can explain how existing phenomenology emerges from QCD and how to refine it systematically. More generally, the application of EFT methods to many-body problems promises insight into the analytic structure of observables, the identification of new expansion parameters, and a consistent organization of many-body corrections, with reliable error estimates.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, plenary talk at the 11th Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories (MB 11), Manchester, England, 9-13 Jul 200

Analytic Lagrangian tori for the planetary many-body problem

In 2004, F\'ejoz [D\'emonstration du 'th\'eor\'eme d'Arnold' sur la stabilit\'e du syst\`eme plan\'etaire (d'apr\`es M. Herman). Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. 24(5) (2004), 1521-1582], completing investigations of Herman's [D\'emonstration d'un th\'eor\'eme de V.I. Arnold. S\'eminaire de Syst\'emes Dynamiques et manuscripts, 1998], gave a complete proof of 'Arnold's Theorem' [V. I. Arnol'd. Small denominators and problems of stability of motion in classical and celestial mechanics. Uspekhi Mat. Nauk. 18(6(114)) (1963), 91-192] on the planetary many-body problem, establishing, in particular, the existence of a positive measure set of smooth (C\infty) Lagrangian invariant tori for the planetary many-body problem. Here, using R\"u{\ss}mann's 2001 KAM theory [H. R\"u{\ss}mann. Invariant tori in non-degenerate nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems. R. & C. Dynamics 2(6) (2001), 119-203], we prove the above result in the real-analytic class

An exactly solvable many-body problem in one dimension

For N impenetrable particles in one dimension where only the nearest and next-to-nearest neighbours interact, we obtain the complete spectrum both on a line and on a circle. Further, we establish a mapping between these N-body problems and the short-range Dyson model introduced recently to model intermediate spectral statistics in some systems using which we compute the two-point correlation function and prove the absence of long-range order in the corresponding many-body theory. Further, we also show the absence of off-diagonal long-range order in these systems.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages, 1 figur

Effective Field Theory and the Nuclear Many Body Problem

We review many body calculations of the equation of state of dilute neutron matter in the context of effective field theories of the nucleon-nucleon interaction.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of 4th International Conference On Quarks And Nuclear Physics (QNP06), 5-10 June 2006, Madrid, Spain. European Physical Journal A, in pres

Hans Bethe: The Nuclear Many Body Problem

We discuss the work of Hans Bethe and others in formulating a theoretical foundation for the nuclear shell model. Written for a general audience, this article describes the evolution from Brueckner's reaction matrix theory to the Moszkowski-Scott separation method and ultimately to the Reference Spectrum method of Bethe, Brandow, and Petschek. We also discuss connections with the recently developed low momentum nucleon-nucleon interactions.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures, In "Hans Bethe and His Physics" (World Scientific, Singapore, 2006

Lattice oscillator model, scattering theory and a many-body problem

We propose a model for the quantum harmonic oscillator on a discrete lattice which can be written in supersymmetric form, in contrast with the more direct discretization of the harmonic oscillator. Its ground state is easily found to be annihilated by the annihilation operator defined here, and its excitation spectrum is obtained numerically. The versatility of the model is then used to calculate, in a simple way, the generalized position-dependent scattering length for a particle colliding with a single static impurity in a periodic potential and the exact ground state of an interacting many-body problem in a one-dimensional ring.Comment: 3 Figures. Version accepted in J. Phys.