Quantum Monte Carlo with non-local chiral interactions

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have been used very successfully to calculate the ground state properties of a variety of nuclear and other strongly interacting many body systems. An exciting recent development in low energy nuclear physics is the formulation of nuclear Hamiltonians based on the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics via chiral effective field theory. However, the usual coordinate space based quantum Monte Carlo implementation is unsuitable for these Hamiltonians due to the presence of non-localites. Here we report on our recent work in developing a new quantum Monte Carlo algorithm suitable for these non-local Hamiltonians, and present some results for pure neutron matter. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.