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Ab Initio Coupled-Cluster Approach to Nuclear Structure with Modern Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions

Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review C
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Volume
82
Issue
82
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We perform coupled-cluster calculations for the doubly magic nuclei ^{4}He, ^{16}O, and ^{40,48}Ca for neutron-rich isotopes of oxygen and fluorine, and employ "bare" and secondary renormalized nucleon-nucleon interactions. For the nucleon-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory at order next-to-next-to-next-to leading order, we find that the coupled-cluster approximation including triples corrections binds nuclei within 0.4 MeV per nucleon compared to data. We employ interactions from a resolution-scale dependent similarity renormalization group transformation and assess the validity of power-counting estimates in medium-mass nuclei. We find that the missing contributions due to three-nucleon forces are consistent with these estimates. For the unitary correlator model potential, we find a slow convergence with respect to increasing the size of the model space. For the G-matrix approach, we find a weak dependence of ground-state energies on the starting energy combined with a rather slow convergence with respect to increasing model spaces. We also analyze the center-of-mass problem and present a practical and efficient solution.