Temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility of nuclear matter: lowest order constrained variational calculations

Abstract

In this paper we study the magnetic susceptibility and other thermodynamic properties of the polarized nuclear matter at finite temperature using the lowest order constrained variational (LOCV) method employing the $A{V}_{18}$ potential. Our results show a monotonic behavior for the magnetic susceptibility which indicates that the spontaneous transition to the ferromagnetic phase does not occur for this system.

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures Phys. Rev C (2009) in press