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Lattice QCD input for nuclear structure and reactions
Explorations of the properties of light nuclear systems beyond their
lowest-lying spectra have begun with Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. While
progress has been made in the past year in pursuing calculations with physical
quark masses, studies of the simplest nuclear matrix elements and nuclear
reactions at heavier quark masses have been conducted, and several interesting
results have been obtained. A community effort has been devoted to investigate
the impact of such Quantum Chromodynamics input on the nuclear many-body
calculations. Systems involving hyperons and their interactions have been the
focus of intense investigations in the field, with new results and deeper
insights emerging. While the validity of some of the previous multi-nucleon
studies has been questioned during the past year, controversy remains as
whether such concerns are relevant to a given result. In an effort to summarize
the newest developments in the field, this talk will touch on most of these
topics.Comment: Plenary talk presented at the "35th International Symposium on
Lattice Field Theory", Granada, Spain, June 2017. 26 pages, 14 figure
Composite Vector Particles in External Electromagnetic Fields
Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) studies of electromagnetic properties of
hadrons and light nuclei, such as magnetic moments and polarizabilities, have
proven successful with the use of background field methods. With an
implementation of nonuniform background electromagnetic fields, properties such
as charge radii and higher electromagnetic multipole moments (for states of
higher spin) can be additionally obtained. This can be achieved by matching
lattice QCD calculations to a corresponding low-energy effective theory that
describes the static and quasi-static response of hadrons and nuclei to weak
external fields. With particular interest in the case of vector mesons and
spin-1 nuclei such as the deuteron, we present an effective field theory of
spin-1 particles coupled to external electromagnetic fields. To constrain the
charge radius and the electric quadrupole moment of the composite spin-1 field,
the single-particle Green's functions in a linearly varying electric field in
space are obtained within the effective theory, providing explicit expressions
that can be used to match directly onto lattice QCD correlation functions. The
viability of an extraction of the charge radius and the electric quadrupole
moment of the deuteron from the upcoming lattice QCD calculations of this
nucleus is discussed.Comment: 38 page
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Spin-density functional approach to thermodynamic and structural consistence in the charge and spin response of an electron gas
We use spin-density functional theory to obtain novel expressions for the
charge and spin local-field factors of an electron gas in terms of its
electron-pair structure factors. These expressions (i) satisfy the
compressibility and spin susceptibility sum rules; (ii) keep account of kinetic
correlations by means of an integration over the coupling strength; and (iii)
provide a practical self-consistent scheme for evaluating linear response and
liquid structure. Numerical illustrations are given for the dielectric response
of the paramagnetic electron gas in both three and two dimensions.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Solid State Commu
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