Properties of trapped neutrons interacting with realistic nuclear Hamiltonians

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We calculate properties of neutron drops in external potentials using both quantum Monte Carlo and no-core full configuration techniques.

• The properties of the external wells are varied to examine different density profiles.
• We compare neutron drop results given by a selection of nuclear Hamiltonians, including realistic two-body interactions as well as several three-body forces.
• We compute a range of properties for the neutron drops: ground-state energies, spin-orbit splittings, excitation energies, radial densities and rms radii.