Trippel, Richard (2016)
Collective Excitations with Chiral NN+3N Interactions from Coupled-Cluster and In-Medium SRG.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Collective Excitations with Chiral NN+3N Interactions from Coupled-Cluster and In-Medium SRG | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Roth, Dr. Robert ; Schwenk, Ph.D. Achim | ||||
Date: | 19 December 2016 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 19 December 2016 | ||||
Abstract: | A broad variety of many-body methods exists for the investigation of ground-state properties, ranging from sophisticated ab initio approaches to traditional, phenomenological models. The description of low-lying excited states of medium-mass nuclei with ab initio methods has also become possible through recent progress in many-body theory. For collective modes at higher energies, however, these methods usually cannot be applied. Therefore, when describing collective excitations either completely phenomenological, macroscopic models are employed or microscopic models using phenomenological interactions. One of the microscopic models well suited for the calculation of collective properties is the random-phase approximation (RPA). In the past, the use of phenomenological interactions for RPA has shown promising results. However, the application of chiral NN interactions yielded transitions at significantly too high energies, far from agreement with experimental data. This thesis focuses on the description of collective modes using both RPA and its second-order extension, SRPA. In contrast to previous research endeavors, we employ chiral NN+3N interactions. The use of chiral interactions is an important first step for describing ground-state, excitation and collective properties on an equal foundation. We find that the inclusion of 3N terms is crucial for RPA calculations and the prediction for collective modes is drastically improved through the 3N terms. For SRPA we show first-ever results with chiral interactions, again leading to an improvement in the predictions. For a successful ab initio description of ground-state properties the inclusion of correlations is of paramount importance. Past RPA calculations have been performed using the quasi-boson approximation, effectively neglecting ground-state correlations. Using RPA, the next step along the path towards an ab initio description of collective properties will, therefore, be the inclusion of correlations. To that end, we extend the RPA formalism to include ground-state correlations from two different many-body methods, the in-medium similarity renormalization group (IM-SRG) and coupled-cluster theory with singles and doubles excitations (CCSD). Both methods have been applied with great success for the calculation of ground-state energies. We develop a formalism based on density matrices for CC-RPA that enables RPA based on an CCSD ground state. The use of IM-SRG transformed matrix elements gives us the possibility to include ground-state correlations even at the level of SRPA. For both methods we observe a strong upward shift in the strength distributions, and, unexpectedly, we find a good agreement between IM-RPA and CC-RPA results. The structure of the transitions remains largely unchanged. We conclude that correlations have significant impact on the energetic positions, but not on the structure of the strength distributions. Employing IM-SRPA we find a strong downward shift in energy similar to the case of SRPA. The agreement of both methods with experiment is comparable. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-58834 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Theoretische Kernphysik > Kern- und Hadronenphysik 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Theoretische Kernphysik > Kernphysik und Nukleare Astrophysik 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Theoretische Kernphysik > |
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Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2016 12:41 | ||||
Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2016 14:04 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/5883 | ||||
PPN: | 397088698 | ||||
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