A Guided Tour of ab initio Nuclear Many-Body Theory

H Hergert - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

Three-nucleon forces: Implementation and applications to atomic nuclei and dense matter

K Hebeler - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have significantly enlarged the accessible part
of the nuclear landscape via ab initio many-body calculations. These developments open …

Converged ab initio calculations of heavy nuclei

T Miyagi, SR Stroberg, P Navrátil, K Hebeler, JD Holt - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We propose a novel storage scheme for three-nucleon (3N) interaction matrix elements
relevant for the normal-ordered two-body approximation used extensively in ab initio …

Novel chiral Hamiltonian and observables in light and medium-mass nuclei

V Somà, P Navrátil, F Raimondi, C Barbieri, T Duguet - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Background: Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have led to the availability of
several complementary ab initio many-body techniques applicable to light and medium …

Multi-reference many-body perturbation theory for nuclei: I. Novel PGCM-PT formalism

M Frosini, T Duguet, JP Ebran, V Somà - The European Physical Journal A, 2022 - Springer
Perturbative and non-perturbative expansion methods already constitute a tool of choice to
perform ab initio calculations over a significant part of the nuclear chart. In this context, the …

Multi-reference many-body perturbation theory for nuclei: III. Ab initio calculations at second order in PGCM-PT

M Frosini, T Duguet, JP Ebran, B Bally… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
In spite of missing dynamical correlations, the projected generator coordinate method
(PGCM) was recently shown to be a suitable method to tackle the low-lying spectroscopy of …

Angular-momentum projection in coupled-cluster theory: Structure of

G Hagen, SJ Novario, ZH Sun, T Papenbrock… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Single-reference coupled-cluster theory is an accurate and affordable computational method
for the nuclear many-body problem. For open-shell nuclei, the reference state typically …

Eigenvector continuation as an efficient and accurate emulator for uncertainty quantification

S König, A Ekström, K Hebeler, D Lee, A Schwenk - Physics Letters B, 2020 - Elsevier
First principles calculations of atomic nuclei based on microscopic nuclear forces derived
from chiral effective field theory (EFT) have blossomed in the past years. A key element of …

Physics of exotic nuclei

Y Ye, X Yang, H Sakurai, B Hu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of exotic structures and dynamics in
weakly bound unstable nuclei located in the rapidly expanding nuclear chart. Examples …

Beyond-mean-field approaches for nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay in the standard mechanism

JM Yao, J Meng, YF Niu, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear weak decays provide important probes to fundamental symmetries in nature. A
precise description of these processes in atomic nuclei requires comprehensive knowledge …