RESULTS FROM SHELL-MODEL MONTE CARLO STUDIES
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- Vol. 47 (1) , 463-504
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.47.1.463
Abstract
▪ Abstract We review results obtained using Shell-Model Monte Carlo (SMMC) techniques. These methods reduce the imaginary-time many-body evolution operator to a coherent superposition of one-body evolutions in fluctuating one-body fields; the resultant path integral is evaluated stochastically. After a brief review of the methods, we discuss a variety of nuclear-physics applications. These include studies of the ground-state properties of pf-shell nuclei, Gamow-Teller strength distributions, thermal and rotational pairing properties of nuclei near N = Z, γ-soft nuclei, and ββ-decay in 76Ge. Several other illustrative calculations are also reviewed. Finally, we discuss prospects for further progress in SMMC and related calculations.Keywords
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