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Monte carlo calculations of nuclei

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Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and Their Applications

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Nuclear many-body calculations have the complication of strong spin-and isospin-dependent potentials. In these lectures I discuss the variational and Green’s function Monte Carlo techniques that have been developed to address this complication, and present a few results.

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Pieper, S.C. (1998). Monte carlo calculations of nuclei. In: Navarro, J., Polls, A. (eds) Microscopic Quantum Many-Body Theories and Their Applications. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104530

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