Monte Carlo Calculations of the Ground State of Three- and Four-Body Nuclei

Abstract

By means of a suitable Green's function, the Schrödinger equation for the few-body nuclear problem is written as an integral equation. In this equation, the binding energy of the ground state is assumed known and the strength of potential required to give this energy is an eigenvalue to be determined. A random walk can be devised whose collision density satisfies the same integral equation. The simulation of this random walk therefore permits an exact numerical solution by Monte Carlo methods. The calculation has been carried out with pairwise potentials of square, Gauss, and exponential shape.