The effects of including light clusters in nuclear matter at low densities are investigated within four different parametrizations of relativistic models at finite temperature. Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous matter (pasta phase) are described for neutral nuclear matter with fixed proton fractions. We discuss the effect of the density dependence of the symmetry energy, the temperature and the proton fraction on the non-homogeneous matter forming the inner crust of proto-neutron stars. It is shown that the number of nucleons in the clusters, the cluster proton fraction and the sizes of the Wigner Seitz cell and of the cluster are very sensitive to the density dependence of the symmetry energy.
PACS number(s):21.65.+f, 24.10.Jv, 26.60.+c, 95.30.Tg
Due to Pauli blocking of intermediate states, the scattering matrix (or $T$
matrix) of two fermionic atoms in a Fermi gas becomes different from that of
two atoms in free space. This effect becomes particularly important near a
Feshbach resonance, where the interaction in free space is very strong but
becomes effectively suppressed in the medium. We calculate the in-medium $T$
matrix in ladder approximation and study its effects on the properties of
collective modes of a trapped gas in the normal-fluid phase. We introduce the
in-medium interaction on both sides of the Boltzmann equation, namely in the
calculation of the mean field and in the calculation of the collision rate.
This allows us to explain the observed upward shift of the frequency of the
quadrupole mode in the collisionless regime. By including the mean field, we
also improve considerably the agreement with the measured temperature
dependence of frequency and damping rate of the scissors mode, whereas the use
of the in-medium cross section deteriorates the description, in agreement with
previous work.Comment: 17 page
We numerically solve the Boltzmann equation for trapped fermions in the normal phase using the test-particle method. After discussing a couple of tests in order to estimate the reliability of the method, we apply it to the description of collective modes in a spherical harmonic trap. The numerical results are compared with those obtained previously by taking moments of the Boltzmann equation. We find that the general shape of the response function is very similar in both methods, but the relaxation time obtained from the simulation is significantly longer than that predicted by the method of moments. It is shown that the result of the method of moments can be corrected by including fourth-order moments in addition to the usual second-order ones and that this method agrees very well with our numerical simulations.
The pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter (finite temperatures and fixed proton fractions) is studied within relativistic mean-field models. Three different calculations are used for comparison: the Thomas-Fermi, the coexisting phases, and the compressible liquid drop approximations. The effects of including light clusters in nuclear matter and the densities at which the transitions between pasta configurations and to uniform matter occur are also investigated. The free energy, pressure, entropy, and chemical potentials in the range of particle number densities and temperatures expected to cover the pasta region are calculated. Finally, a comparison with a finite-temperature Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculation is drawn.
For a gas trapped in a harmonic potential, the sloshing (or Kohn) mode is undamped and its frequency coincides with the trap frequency, independently of the statistics, interaction and temperature of the gas. However, experimental trap potentials have usually Gaussian shape and anharmonicity effects appear as the temperature and, in the case of Fermions, the filling of the trap are increased. We study the sloshing mode of a degenerate Fermi gas in an anharmonic trap within the Boltzmann equation, including in-medium effects in both the transport and collision terms. The calculated frequency shifts and damping rates of the sloshing mode due to the trap anharmonicity are in satisfactory agreement with the available experimental data. We also discuss higher-order dipole, octupole, and bending modes and show that the damping of the sloshing mode is caused by its coupling to these modes.
10 pages, 2 figures; published versionWe study the transition from hydrodynamic to collisionless behavior in collective modes of ultracold trapped Fermi gases. To that end, we solve the Boltzmann equation for the trapped Fermi gas via the moments method. We showed previously that it is necessary to go beyond second-order moments if one wants to reproduce the results of a numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Here, we will give the detailed description of the method including fourth-order moments. We apply this method to the case of realistic parameters, and compare the results for the radial quadrupole and scissors modes at unitarity to experimental data obtained by the Innsbruck group. It turns out that the inclusion of fourth-order moments clearly improves the agreement with the experimental data. In particular, the fourth-order moments reduce the effect of collisions and therefore partially compensate the effect of the enhanced in-medium cross section at low temperatures
By introducing a common representational system for metadata that describe the employed simulation workflows, diverse sources of data and platforms in computational molecular engineering, such as workflow management systems, can become interoperable at the semantic level. To achieve semantic interoperability, the present work introduces two ontologies that provide a formal specification of the entities occurring in a simulation workflow and the relations between them: The software ontology VISO is developed to represent software packages and their features, and OSMO, an ontology for simulation, modelling, and optimization, is introduced on the basis of MODA, a previously developed semi-intuitive graph notation for workflows in materials modelling. As a proof of concept, OSMO is employed to describe a leading-edge application scenario of the TaLPas workflow management system.
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