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  • Nuclear Physics
  • Quantum Many-Body Systems
  • Ultracold Atomic Gases

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  • Ab initio nuclear physics addresses strongly interacting four-component fermions.
  • Ultracold atomic systems offer experimental avenues for studying few-component fermions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate four-component fermions at unitarity using quantum Monte Carlo methods.
  • Explore novel trial wave functions for few-body systems.
  • Provide experimentally testable results relevant to nuclear physics.

Main Methods:

  • Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods.
  • Exploration of novel trial wave functions.
  • Extrapolation to the zero-range limit.

Main Results:

  • A novel trial wave function was identified for an eight-particle system.
  • The ground state energy of the eight-particle system closely matches that of two four-particle systems.
  • Clustering properties were investigated.

Conclusions:

  • The findings are experimentally testable in ultracold atomic systems.
  • Results advance the development of nuclear physics as a perturbation around the unitary limit.