10 research outputs found
Theoretical predictions of experimental observables sensitive to the symmetry energy: Results of the SMF transport model
In the framework of mean-field based transport approaches, we discuss recent
results concerning heavy ion reactions between charge asymmetric systems, from
low up to intermediate energies. We focus on isospin sensitive observables,
aiming at extracting information on the density dependence of the isovector
part of the nuclear effective interaction and of the nuclear symmetry energy.
For reactions close to the Coulomb barrier, we explore the structure of
collective dipole oscillations, rather sensitive to the low-density behavior of
the symmetry energy. In the Fermi energy regime, we investigate the interplay
between dissipation mechanisms, fragmentation and isospin effects. At
intermediate energies, where regions with higher density and momentum are
reached, we discuss collective flows and their sensitivity to the momentum
dependence of the isovector interaction channel, which determines the splitting
of neutron and proton effective masses. Finally, we also discuss the isospin
effect on the possible phase transition from nucleonic matter to quark matter.
Results are critically reviewed, also trying to establish a link, when
possible, with the outcome of other transport models.Comment: A contribution to the upcoming EPJA Special Volume on Nuclear
Symmetry Energ
Reduced basis emulation of pairing in finite systems
In recent years, reduced basis methods (RBMs) have been adapted to the
many-body eigenvalue problem and they have been used, largely in nuclear
physics, as fast emulators able to bypass expensive direct computations while
still providing highly accurate results. This work is meant to show that the
RBM is an efficient and accurate emulator for the strong correlations induced
by the pairing interaction in a variety of finite systems like ultrasmall
superconducting grains, interacting topological superfluids and mesoscopic
hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices, all of which require an expensive,
beyond-mean-field, particle-number conserving description. These systems are
modelled by the number-conserving Richardson pairing Hamiltonian and its
appropriate generalizations. Their ground state is solved for exactly using the
Density Matrix Renormalization Group. The reduced basis is assembled
iteratively from a small number of exact ground state vectors, well-chosen from
across the relevant parameter space using a fast estimate of the emulation
error and a greedy local optimization algorithm. The reduced basis emulation is
found to accurately describe the weak-to-strong pairing cross-over in small
grains, the third-order topological phase transition of the interacting
Richardson-Kitaev chain, and the complex charge stability diagram of a hybrid
quantum dot - superconductor device. RBMs are thus confirmed to be cheap and
accurate emulators for the widely encountered superconducting phenomena.
Capable of providing orders of magnitude computational speed-up with respect to
approaches based only on traditional many-body solvers, they open new
possibilities in building and solving models of interacting many-body systems
and in better interfacing them with experimental design and data analysis.Comment: 16 pages, 17 figure
Surrogate model solver for impurity-induced superconducting subgap states
A simple impurity solver is shown to capture the impurity-induced
superconducting subgap states in quantitative agreement with the numerical
renormalization group and quantum Monte-Carlo simulations. The solver is based
on the exact diagonalization of a single-impurity Anderson model with
discretized superconducting reservoirs including only a small number of
effective levels. Their energies and couplings to the impurity -level are
chosen so as to best reproduce the Matsubara frequency dependence of the
hybridization function. We provide a number of critical benchmarks and
demonstrate the solvers efficiency in combination with the reduced basis method
[Phys. Rev. B 107, 144503 (2023)] by calculating the phase diagram for an
interacting three-terminal junction.Comment: 15 pages, 15 figure
Collective features of nuclear dynamics with exotic nuclei within microscopic transport models
We employ a transport model based on Landau-Vlasov equation to explore the dipolar response of neutron rich systems and its dependence on the symmetry energy. We present evidences for collective features of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance (PDR) and study its dependence with the mass number. We extract a parametrization for the energy centroid position, 41A−1/3, which agrees quite well with the data for Ni, Zr, Sn and Pb. A linear correlation between the Energy Weighted Sum Rule (EWSR) associated to PDR and the neutron skin thickness is evidenced. An increase of 15 MeV fm2 of EWSR to a change of 0.1 fm of neutron skin size is obtained. We conclude that different nuclei having close neutron skin size will exhaust the same EWSR in the pygmy region. Consequently a precise experimental estimate of total EWSR exhausted by PDR allows the determination of the neutron skin size and to constrain the slope parameter of the symmetry energy
Collective features of nuclear dynamics with exotic nuclei within microscopic transport models
We employ a transport model based on Landau-Vlasov equation to explore the dipolar response of neutron rich systems and its dependence on the symmetry energy. We present evidences for collective features of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance (PDR) and study its dependence with the mass number. We extract a parametrization for the energy centroid position, 41A−1/3, which agrees quite well with the data for Ni, Zr, Sn and Pb. A linear correlation between the Energy Weighted Sum Rule (EWSR) associated to PDR and the neutron skin thickness is evidenced. An increase of 15 MeV fm2 of EWSR to a change of 0.1 fm of neutron skin size is obtained. We conclude that different nuclei having close neutron skin size will exhaust the same EWSR in the pygmy region. Consequently a precise experimental estimate of total EWSR exhausted by PDR allows the determination of the neutron skin size and to constrain the slope parameter of the symmetry energy