Nuclear effective field theory: status and perspectives

HW Hammer, S König, U Van Kolck - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The nuclear-physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field
theories (EFTs) connected to the standard model through symmetries and lattice simulations …

QCD with background electromagnetic fields on the lattice: a review

G Endrődi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive summary of results on the physics of strongly
interacting matter in the presence of background electromagnetic fields, obtained via …

Quantum Simulation of SU(3) Lattice Yang-Mills Theory at Leading Order in Large- Expansion

AN Ciavarella, CW Bauer - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum simulations of the dynamics of QCD have been limited by the complexities of
mapping the continuous gauge fields onto quantum computers. By parametrizing the gauge …

Quantum simulation of lattice QCD with improved Hamiltonians

AN Ciavarella - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories are anticipated to directly probe the real time
dynamics of QCD, but scale unfavorably with the required truncation of the gauge fields …

Gravitational form factors of the proton from lattice QCD

DC Hackett, DA Pefkou, PE Shanahan - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The gravitational form factors (GFFs) of a hadron encode fundamental aspects of its
structure, including its shape and size as defined from, eg, its energy density. This Letter …

Preparation of the SU (3) lattice Yang-Mills vacuum with variational quantum methods

AN Ciavarella, IA Chernyshev - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Studying QCD and other gauge theories on quantum hardware requires the preparation of
physically interesting states. The variational quantum eigensolver provides a way of …

Gravitational form factors of the pion from lattice QCD

DC Hackett, PR Oare, DA Pefkou, PE Shanahan - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The two gravitational form factors of the pion, A π (t) and D π (t), are computed as functions
of the momentum transfer squared t in the kinematic region 0≤-t< 2 GeV 2 on a lattice QCD …

Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD for electroweak and beyond-Standard-Model processes

Z Davoudi, W Detmold, P Shanahan, K Orginos… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, numerical solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using the
technique of lattice QCD have developed to a point where they are beginning to connect …

Quantum algorithms for simulating the lattice Schwinger model

AF Shaw, P Lougovski, JR Stryker, N Wiebe - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
The Schwinger model (quantum electrodynamics in 1+ 1 dimensions) is a testbed for the
study of quantum gauge field theories. We give scalable, explicit digital quantum algorithms …

Renormalized approach to neutrinoless double- decay

V Cirigliano, W Dekens, J de Vries, ML Graesser… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
The process at the heart of neutrinoless double-β decay, nn→ ppe− e− induced by a light
Majorana neutrino, is investigated in pionless and chiral effective field theory. We show in …