Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo calculation of nuclei with A<40 with tensor interactions

S. Gandolfi, F. Pederiva, S. Fantoni, K. E. Schmidt

Published 2007-04-13Version 1

We calculate the ground-state energy of 4He, 8He, 16O, and 40Ca using the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method in the fixed phase approximation and the Argonne v6' interaction which includes a tensor force. Comparison of our light nuclei results to those of Green's function Monte Carlo calculations shows the accuracy of our method for both open and closed shell nuclei. We also apply it to 16O and 40Ca to show that quantum Monte Carlo methods are now applicable to larger nuclei.