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@ARTICLE{Elhatisari:826208,
      author       = {Elhatisari, Serdar and Li, Ning and Rokash, Alexander and
                      Alarcón, Jose Manuel and Du, Dechuan and Klein, Nico and
                      Lu, Bing-nan and Meißner, Ulf-G. and Epelbaum, Evgeny and
                      Krebs, Hermann and Lähde, Timo A. and Lee, Dean and Rupak,
                      Gautam},
      title        = {{N}uclear {B}inding {N}ear a {Q}uantum {P}hase
                      {T}ransition},
      journal      = {Physical review letters},
      volume       = {117},
      number       = {13},
      issn         = {1079-7114},
      address      = {College Park, Md.},
      publisher    = {APS},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2017-00454},
      pages        = {132501},
      year         = {2016},
      note         = {Published version to appear in Physical Review Letters.
                      Main: 5 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental material: 13 pages, 6
                      figures},
      abstract     = {How do protons and neutrons bind to form nuclei? This is
                      the central question of ab initio nuclear structure theory.
                      While the answer may seem as simple as the fact that nuclear
                      forces are attractive, the full story is more complex and
                      interesting. In this work we present numerical evidence from
                      ab initio lattice simulations showing that nature is near a
                      quantum phase transition, a zero-temperature transition
                      driven by quantum fluctuations. Using lattice effective
                      field theory, we perform Monte Carlo simulations for systems
                      with up to twenty nucleons. For even and equal numbers of
                      protons and neutrons, we discover a first-order transition
                      at zero temperature from a Bose-condensed gas of alpha
                      particles (4He nuclei) to a nuclear liquid. Whether one has
                      an alpha-particle gas or nuclear liquid is determined by the
                      strength of the alpha-alpha interactions, and we show that
                      the alpha-alpha interactions depend on the strength and
                      locality of the nucleon-nucleon interactions. This insight
                      should be useful in improving calculations of nuclear
                      structure and important astrophysical reactions involving
                      alpha capture on nuclei. Our findings also provide a tool to
                      probe the structure of alpha cluster states such as the
                      Hoyle state responsible for the production of carbon in red
                      giant stars and point to a connection between nuclear states
                      and the universal physics of bosons at large scattering
                      length.},
      cin          = {IAS-4 / IKP-3 / NIC},
      ddc          = {550},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-4-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IKP-3-20111104 /
                      I:(DE-Juel1)NIC-20090406},
      pnm          = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
                      (POF3-511) / DFG project 196253076 - TRR 110: Symmetrien und
                      Strukturbildung in der Quantenchromodynamik (196253076) /
                      Nuclear Lattice Simulations $(hfz02_20150501)$},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511 / G:(GEPRIS)196253076 /
                      $G:(DE-Juel1)hfz02_20150501$},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      eprint       = {1602.04539},
      howpublished = {arXiv:1602.04539},
      archivePrefix = {arXiv},
      SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:1602.04539;\%\%$},
      UT           = {WOS:000383848500001},
      pubmed       = {pmid:27715077},
      doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.132501},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/826208},
}