BEC-BCS crossover and the liquid-gas phase transition in hot and dense nuclear matter
BEC-BCS crossover and the liquid-gas phase transition in hot and dense nuclear matter
The effect of nucleon-nucleon correlations in symmetric nuclear matter at finite temperature is studied beyond BCS theory. Starting from a Hartree-Fock description of nuclear matter with the Gogny effective interaction, we add correlations corresponding to the formation of preformed pairs and scattering states above the superfluid critical temperature within the …