Liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter from realistic many-body approaches
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The existence of a liquid-gas phase transition for hot nuclear systems at subsaturation densities is a well established prediction of finite temperature nuclear many-body theory. In this paper, we discuss for the first time the properties of such phase transition for homogeneous nuclear matter within the Self-Consistent Green's Functions approach. We find a substantial decrease of the critical temperature with respect to the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation. Even within the same approximation, the use of two different realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions gives rise to large differences in the properties of the critical point.
REVTEX4 - 23 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; corrections added, final version
REVTEX4 - 23 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; corrections added, final version