@article{94404e0ec9d44a9cadc4a424ec7c028c,
title = "Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of light and medium-mass nuclei with local chiral interactions",
abstract = "Quantum Monte Carlo methods have recently been employed to study properties of nuclei and infinite matter using local chiral effective-field-theory interactions. In this work, we present a detailed description of the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm for nuclei in combination with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We show results for the binding energy, charge radius, charge form factor, and Coulomb sum rule in nuclei with 3≤A≤16. Particular attention is devoted to the effect of different operator structures in the three-body force for different cutoffs. The outcomes suggest that local chiral interactions fit to few-body observables give a very good description of the ground-state properties of nuclei up to O16, with the exception of one fit for the softer cutoff which predicts overbinding in larger nuclei.",
author = "D. Lonardoni and S. Gandolfi and Lynn, {J. E.} and C. Petrie and J. Carlson and Kevin Schmidt and A. Schwenk",
note = "Funding Information: We thank I. Tews, A. Lovato, A. Roggero, and R. F. Garcia Ruiz for many valuable discussions. The work of D.L. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-SC0013617, and by the NUCLEI SciDAC program. The work of S.G. and J.C. was supported by the NUCLEI SciDAC program, by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396, and by the LDRD program at LANL. The work of J.E.L. and A.S. was supported by the ERC Grant No. 307986 STRONGINT and the BMBF under Contract No. 05P15RDFN1. K.E.S. and C.P. were supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-1404405. C.P. was also supported by a Wally Stoelzel Fellowship from the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. Computational resources have been provided by Los Alamos Open Supercomputing via the Institutional Computing (IC) program, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, by the Lichtenberg high performance computer of the TU Darmstadt, and by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. ACI-1548562. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Physical Society.",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevC.97.044318",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "97",
journal = "Physical Review C",
issn = "2469-9985",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "4",
}