using DifferentialEquations, Roots const ħc = 197.327 # ħc in MeVfm const M_n = 939.5654133 # Neutron mass in MeV/c2 const M_p = 938.2720813 # Proton mass in MeV/c2 const r_reg = 1E-6 # regulator for the centrifugal term in fm "The spherical Dirac equation that returns du=[dg, df] in-place where u=[g, f] are the reduced radial components evaluated at r, κ is the generalized angular momentum, p is true for proton and false for neutron, E in the energy in MeV, Φ0, W0, B0, A0 are the mean-field potentials (couplings included) in MeV as functions of r in fm, r is the radius in fm. Reference: P. Giuliani, K. Godbey, E. Bonilla, F. Viens, and J. Piekarewicz, Frontiers in Physics 10, (2023)" function dirac!(du, u, (κ, p, E, Φ0, W0, B0, A0), r) M = p ? M_p : M_n common1 = E - W0(r) - (p - 0.5) * B0(r) - p * A0(r) common2 = M - Φ0(r) (g, f) = u du[1] = -(κ/(r + r_reg)) * g + (common1 + common2) * f / ħc du[2] = (κ/(r + r_reg)) * f - (common1 - common2) * g / ħc end "Solve the Dirac equation and return g(r=r_max) for given scalar and vector potentials where r_max is the outer boundary in fm, the other parameters are the same from dirac!(...)." function boundaryValue(κ, p, E, Φ0, W0, B0, A0, r_max) prob = ODEProblem(dirac!, [0, 1], (0, r_max)) sol = solve(prob, RK4(), p=(κ, p, E, Φ0, W0, B0, A0), saveat=[r_max], save_idxs=[1]) return sol[1, 1] end "Find all bound energies between E_min (=0) and E_max (=mass) where the other parameters are the same from dirac!(...)." function findEs(κ, p, Φ0, W0, B0, A0, r_max, E_min=0, E_max=(p ? M_p : M_n)) f(E) = boundaryValue(κ, p, E, Φ0, W0, B0, A0, r_max) return find_zeros(f, (E_min, E_max)) end "Find N lowest lying orbitals and return two lists containing κ values and corresponding energies for a single species where the other parameters are defined above" function fillNucleons(N, p, Φ0, W0, B0, A0, r_max, E_min=0, E_max=(p ? M_p : M_n)) κs = Int[] Es = Float64[] # start from κ=-1 and go both up and down for direction in [-1, 1] for κ in direction * (1:100) # cutoff is 100 new_Es = findEs(κ, p, Φ0, W0, B0, A0, r_max, E_min, E_max) if isempty(new_Es); break; end append!(Es, new_Es) append!(κs, fill(κ, length(new_Es))) end end if length(Es) < N @warn "Only found $(length(Es)) orbitals for $N nucleons" return (κs, Es) else idxs = sortperm(Es)[1:N] return (κs[idxs], Es[idxs]) end end