Degenerate limit thermodynamics beyond leading order for models of dense matter

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.10.003zbMATH Open1360.82046arXiv1507.07874OpenAlexW2195962193MaRDI QIDQ528281FDOQ528281

Constantinos Constantinou, Brian Muccioli, M. Prakash, James M. Lattimer

Publication date: 12 May 2017

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Analytical formulas for next-to-leading order temperature corrections to the thermal state variables of interacting nucleons in bulk matter are derived in the degenerate limit. The formalism developed is applicable to a wide class of non-relativistic and relativistic models of hot and dense matter currently used in nuclear physics and astrophysics (supernovae, proto-neutron stars and neutron star mergers) as well as in condensed matter physics. We consider the general case of arbitrary dimensionality of momentum space and an arbitrary degree of relativity (for relativistic mean-field theoretical models). For non-relativistic zero-range interactions, knowledge of the Landau effective mass suffices to compute next-to-leading order effects, but in the case of finite-range interactions, momentum derivatives of the Landau effective mass function up to second order are required. Numerical computations are performed to compare results from our analytical formulas with the exact results for zero- and finite-range potential and relativistic mean-field theoretical models. In all cases, inclusion of next-to-leading order temperature effects substantially extends the ranges of partial degeneracy for which the analytical treatment remains valid.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07874

zbMATH Keywords

thermal effects hot and dense matter potential and field-theoretical models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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