Towards a nonequilibrium Green's function description of nuclear reactions: one-dimensional mean-field dynamics

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.12.009zbMATH Open1221.81192arXiv1009.0215OpenAlexW3105622402MaRDI QIDQ635038FDOQ635038

Authors: Arnau Rios, Brent Barker, Mark Buchler, Pawel Danielewicz 

Publication date: 19 August 2011

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

Abstract: Nonequilibrium Green's function methods allow for an intrinsically consistent description of the evolution of quantal many-body body systems, with inclusion of different types of correlations. In this paper, we focus on the practical developments needed to build a Green's function methodology for nuclear reactions. We start out by considering symmetric collisions of slabs in one dimension within the mean-field approximation. We concentrate on two issues of importance for actual reaction simulations. First, the preparation of the initial state within the same methodology as for the reaction dynamics is demonstrated by an adiabatic switching on of the mean-field interaction, which leads to the mean-field ground state. Second, the importance of the Green's function matrix-elements far away from the spatial diagonal is analyzed by a suitable suppression process that does not significantly affect the evolution of the elements close to the diagonal. The relative lack of importance of the far-away elements is tied to system expansion. We also examine the evolution of the Wigner function and verify quantitatively that erasing of the off-diagonal elements corresponds to averaging out of the momentum-space details in the Wigner function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0215

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionsKadanoff-Baym equationsnuclear reactionstime-dependent Hartree-Fock

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Fundamental solutions, Green's function methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M80) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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