Towards Quantum Transport for Nuclear Reactions

Abstract

Nonequilibrium Green's functions represent a promising tool for describing central nuclear reactions. Even at the single-particle level, though, the Green's functions contain more information that computers may handle in the foreseeable future. In this study, we investigate whether all the information contained in the Green's functions is necessarily relevant when describing the time evolution of nuclear reactions. For this, we carry out mean-field calculations of slab collisions in one dimension.

Comments: 8 pages, 11 figures, contribution to Proceedings of the Conference on Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, 28 July - 2 August 2008, Prague, Czech Republic