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An Advanced Course in Computational Nuclear Physics

Bridging the Scales from Quarks to Neutron Stars

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Editors:
  1. Morten Hjorth-Jensen

    1. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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  2. Maria Paola Lombardo

    1. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati Roma, Italy

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  3. Ubirajara van Kolck

    1. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  • Modern, up-to-date and self-contained primer on this fast evolving subject matter
  • Edited and authored by leading specialists in the field
  • Each course makes a link with actual numerical software

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 936)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Motivation and Overarching Aims

    • Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Maria Paola Lombardo, Ubirajara van Kolck
    Pages 1-4

  3. Quantum Chromodynamics

    • Thomas Schäfer
    Pages 5-54

  4. Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

    • Tetsuo Hatsuda
    Pages 55-91

  5. General Aspects of Effective Field Theories and Few-Body Applications

    • Hans-Werner Hammer, Sebastian König
    Pages 93-153

  6. Lattice Methods and Effective Field Theory

    • Amy Nicholson
    Pages 155-235

  7. Lattice Methods and the Nuclear Few- and Many-Body Problem

    • Dean Lee
    Pages 237-261

  8. Ab Initio Methods for Nuclear Structure and Reactions: From Few to Many Nucleons

    • Giuseppina Orlandini
    Pages 263-292

  9. Computational Nuclear Physics and Post Hartree-Fock Methods

    • Justin G. Lietz, Samuel Novario, Gustav R. Jansen, Gaute Hagen, Morten Hjorth-Jensen
    Pages 293-399

  10. Variational and Diffusion Monte Carlo Approaches to the Nuclear Few- and Many-Body Problem

    • Francesco Pederiva, Alessandro Roggero, Kevin E. Schmidt
    Pages 401-476

  11. In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group Approach to the Nuclear Many-Body Problem

    • Heiko Hergert, Scott K. Bogner, Justin G. Lietz, Titus D. Morris, Samuel J. Novario, Nathan M. Parzuchowski et al.
    Pages 477-570

  12. Self-Consistent Green’s Function Approaches

    • Carlo Barbieri, Arianna Carbone
    Pages 571-644
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About this book

This graduate-level text collects and synthesizes a series of ten lectures on the nuclear quantum many-body problem. Starting from our current understanding of the underlying forces, it presents recent advances within the field of lattice quantum chromodynamics before going on to discuss effective field theories, central many-body methods like Monte Carlo methods, coupled cluster theories, the similarity renormalization group approach, Green’s function methods and large-scale diagonalization approaches.

Algorithmic and computational advances show particular promise for breakthroughs in predictive power, including proper error estimates, a better understanding of the underlying effective degrees of freedom and of the respective forces at play. Enabled by recent improvements in theoretical, experimental and numerical techniques, the state-of-the art applications considered in this volume span the entire range, from our smallest components – quarks and gluons as the mediatorsof the strong force – to the computation of the equation of state for neutron star matter.

The lectures presented provide an in-depth exposition of the underlying theoretical and algorithmic approaches as well details of the numerical implementation of the methods discussed. Several also include links to numerical software and benchmark calculations, which readers can use to develop their own programs for tackling challenging nuclear many-body problems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

    Morten Hjorth-Jensen

  • INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati Roma, Italy

    Maria Paola Lombardo

  • Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Ubirajara van Kolck

About the editors

Morten Hjorth-Jensen is a professor in theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Oslo since 2001. He shared the University of Oslo Excellence in Teaching Award for 2000, and became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007. In 2008, together with collaborators, he received the Oak Ridge National Laboratory award in the category for "Scientific Research" for the development and implementation of coupled-cluster theory for medium mass and neutron-rich nuclei. 


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