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Virtues and flaws of the Pauli potential

J Taruna1, J Piekarewicz1 and M A Pérez-García2

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Quantum simulations of complex fermionic systems suffer from a variety of challenging problems. In an effort to circumvent these challenges, simpler 'semi-classical' approaches have been used to mimic fermionic correlations through a fictitious 'Pauli potential'. In this contribution we examine two issues. First, we address some of the inherent difficulties in a widely used version of the Pauli potential. Second, we refine such a potential in a manner consistent with the most basic properties of a cold Fermi gas, such as its momentum distribution and its two-body correlation function.


PACS

26.60.-c Nuclear matter aspects of neutron stars

24.10.Pa Thermal and statistical models

MSC

81V35 Nuclear physics

85A99 Miscellaneous topics

Subjects

Nuclear physics

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 3 (25 January 2008)

Received 25 July 2007, in final form 29 November 2007

Published 4 January 2008



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