TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lu, Bing-Nan
AU  - Li, Ning
AU  - Elhatisari, Serdar
AU  - Lee, Dean
AU  - Drut, Joaquín E.
AU  - Lähde, Timo A.
AU  - Epelbaum, Evgeny
AU  - Meißner, Ulf-G.
TI  - Ab Initio Nuclear Thermodynamics
JO  - Physical review letters
VL  - 125
IS  - 19
SN  - 1079-7114
CY  - College Park, Md.
PB  - APS
M1  - FZJ-2021-00168
SP  - 192502
PY  - 2020
AB  - We propose a new Monte Carlo method called the pinhole trace algorithm for ab initio calculations of the thermodynamics of nuclear systems. For typical simulations of interest, the computational speedup relative to conventional grand-canonical ensemble calculations can be as large as a factor of one thousand. Using a leading-order effective interaction that reproduces the properties of many atomic nuclei and neutron matter to a few percent accuracy, we determine the location of the critical point and the liquid-vapor coexistence line for symmetric nuclear matter with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. We also present the first ab initio study of the density and temperature dependence of nuclear clustering.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 33216564
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000600930000001
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.192502
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/889263
ER  -