title: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of neutron matter with nonlocal chiral interactions.
abstract: We present fully nonperturbative quantum Monte Carlo calculations with nonlocal chiral effective field theory (EFT) interactions for the ground-state properties of neutron matter. The equation of state, the nucleon chemical potentials, and the momentum distribution in pure neutron matter up to one and a half times the nuclear saturation density are computed with a newly optimized chiral EFT interaction at next-to-next-to-leading order. This work opens the way to systematic order by order benchmarking of chiral EFT interactions and ab initio prediction of nuclear properties while respecting the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy and Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, INFN-TIFPA, I-38123 Trento, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roggero
authors.affiliation: ECT*, Villa Tambosi, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento), Italy.
authors.forename: Abhishek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy and Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, INFN-TIFPA, I-38123 Trento, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pederiva