arXiv:0801.4171·v1·Nuclear Theory
Time-dependent Green's functions approach to nuclear reactions
Arnau Rios (1)🇺🇸 · Pawel Danielewicz (1,2) ((1) National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, USA, (2) Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)🇺🇸
Abstract
Nonequilibrium Green's functions represent underutilized means of studying the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. In view of a rising computer power, an effort is underway to apply the Green's functions formalism to the dynamics of central nuclear reactions. As the first step, mean-field evolution for the density matrix for colliding slabs is studied in one dimension. The strategy to extend the dynamics to correlations is described.
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the "2nd Workshop on nuclei and mesoscopic physics", NSCL-MSU, October 20-22, 2007