Eur. Phys. J. A (2003) 17: 469-473
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10194-5

Original Paper

Constrained path calculations of the ⁴ He and ¹⁶ O nuclei

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, AZ 85287, Tempe, USA
² Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, Via Beirut 2/4, Trieste, Italia

^* e-mail: kevin.schmidt@asu.edu

Abstract

We give results for the energy of the ⁴He and ¹⁶O nuclei using the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo and a path constraint. We compare the results with previous FHNC and cluster Monte Carlo calculations.