Published February 13, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Fully antisymmetrised dynamics for bulk fermion systems

  • 1. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH Planckstraße 1 64291 Darmstadt (Germany)

Description

The neutron star's crust and mantel are typical examples of non-uniform bulk systems with spacial localisations. When modelling such systems at low temperatures, as is the case in the crust, one has to work with antisymmetrised many-body states to get the correct fermion behaviour. Fermionic molecular dynamics, which works with an antisymmetrised product of localised wave packets, should be an appropriate choice. Implementing periodic boundary conditions into the fermionic molecular dynamics formalism would allow the study of the neutron star's crust as a bulk quantum system. Unfortunately, the antisymmetrisation is a non-local entanglement which reaches far out of the periodically repeated unit cell. In this proceeding, we give a brief overview how periodic boundary conditions and fermionic molecular dynamics can be combined without truncating the long-range many-body correlation induced by the antisymmetry of the many-body state.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/342/1/012011

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
342
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[6 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
2. Iberian nuclear astrophysics meeting on compact stars
Dates
22-23 Sep 2011
Place
Salamanca (Spain)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43105117
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CORRELATIONS; FERMIONS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHOD; NEUTRON STARS; PERIODICITY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; WAVE PACKETS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; SIMULATION; STARS; VARIATIONS