Frontiers in Nuclear Lattice EFT: From Ab Initio Nuclear Structure to Reactions

Name: Frontiers in Nuclear Lattice EFT: From Ab Initio Nuclear Structure to Reactions
Start: 2025-03-01T00:30:00+08:00
End: 2025-03-03T18:45:00+08:00
Location: Baiyan Building

1 Mar 2025, 00:30 → 3 Mar 2025, 18:45 Asia/Shanghai

19 Floor 1917 Room (Baiyan Building)

19 Floor 1917 Room

Baiyan Building

No. 238, North 4th Ring Central Road Auxiliary Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Description

Understanding the fundamental aspects of nuclear structure and reactions remains a central challenge in nuclear physics. Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory (NLEFT) has emerged as a powerful ab initio approach that bridges effective field theories and lattice simulations to study nuclear systems directly from the underlying forces.

This symposium will cover recent progress in Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory (NLEFT) and related areas, including advancements in nuclear lattice simulations, ab initio calculations of nuclear structure, nuclear thermodynamics, nuclear and neutron matter, hyper-neutron matter and hypernuclei, as well as nuclear scattering dynamics and reactions. Additionally, effective field theories in nuclear physics, computational methods and algorithms in NLEFT, and applications to nuclear astrophysics will be featured. The symposium aims to bring together researchers and experts working in NLEFT and related fields to discuss these developments, exchange ideas, and foster collaborations.

Local Organizing Committee:

Ulf-G. Meißner (Bonn/Jülich/Beihang)
Li-Sheng Geng (Beihang)
Shihang Shen ((Beihang)

Participants

Andreas Nogga
Avik Sarkar
Bingnan Lu
Cong-Wu Wang
Fabian Hildenbrand
Feng-Kun Guo
Gautam Rupak
Hang Yu
Hans-Werner Hammer
Helen Meyer
Hui Tong
Myungkuk Kim
Qian Wang
Serdar Elhatisari
Shihang Shen
Shuang Zhang
Teng Wang
Ulf-G. Meißner
Xu Feng
Yilong Yang
Young-Ho Song
Youngman Kim
Zhaolong Zhang
Zhengxue Ren

Saturday, 1 March
- 09:00 → 09:05
  
  Introduction and welcome 5m
  
  Speaker: Ulf-G. Meißner
- 09:05 → 09:50
  
  Advancing nuclear structure and scattering calculations using NLEFT 45m
  
  In this talk, I will present an overview of recent advances in nuclear lattice simulations, focusing on how the recently developed N3LO lattice action bridges the gap between QCD and nuclear interactions, enabling the formulation of a modern theory of nuclear forces. More specifically, I will discuss the determination of three-nucleon interactions, which has led to highly precise predictions and a deeper understanding of nuclear systems. Additionally, I will highlight the wave function matching method, an approach that significantly improves the convergence of perturbation theory for solving quantum many-body systems. Finally, I will present recent ab-initio results from nuclear structure and nuclear scattering calculations.
  
  Speaker: Serdar Elhatisari
  
  Beihang_March2025.pdf
- 09:50 → 10:35
  
  Alpha-alpha scattering using adibatic projecton method 45m
  
  I will present the alpha-alpha scattering results using the latest improved NLEFT interaction, including wavefunction matching, at N3LO. This will be an improvement to our previous results, where we had only up to N2LO and with a different interaction.
  
  Speaker: Avik Sarkar
  
  APM_Avik_Sarkar_Beihang_2025_ppt.pdf
- 10:35 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 25m
- 11:00 → 11:45
  
  Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Deuteron-Deuteron reactions 45m
  
  Big Bang or primordial nucleosynthesis (BBN) provides a fine laboratory for testing theories beyond the standard model. I present recent work on finding constraints on the variation of fundamental parameters like the Higgs VEV and the strange quark condensate from BBN. In order to match the precision set by experiment for primordial abundances, we need to further improve our theoretical understanding of BBN. The biggest source of uncertainty are the nuclear reaction rates, mainly for the deuteron-deuteron reactions. I motivate my on-going work of calculating these reaction rates in the ab-initio framework of Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory (NLEFT) and present preliminary results. NLEFT has proven to be a powerful tool in predicting various nuclear properties and scattering rates, so calculating deuteron-deuteron rates will provide a reliable and necessary addition to theoretical simulations of BBN.
  
  Speaker: Helen Meyer (Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universität Bonn)
  
  HMeyer_slides.pdf
- 11:45 → 12:30
  
  New Method for Determining Few-Body Resonance Poles in Finite Volume 45m
  
  We introduce a new method, referred to as the persistent state method, for determining few-body resonance poles in a finite volume. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated through explicit examples covering both continuum and lattice setups, as well as two- and three-body resonance cases.
  
  Speaker: Cong-Wu Wang (Fudan Univ. & Ruhr-Univ. Bochum)
  
  250301_beijing_congwu_wang_resonance.pdf
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 14:45
  
  Nuclear charge radii from the partial pinhole algorithm 45m
  
  Nuclear charge radii are among the most fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. In nuclear lattice effective field theory, charge radii are typically calculated using the pinhole method, where an $A$-body density operator ($A$ being the mass number) is inserted at mid-time during the imaginary time evolution. However, this $A$-body density operator introduces significant sign oscillations, especially for heavy nuclei and large imaginary times. In this talk, I will present a novel approach called the partial pinhole method for calculating nuclear charge radii. By reducing the order of the density operators, this method significantly alleviates the sign oscillation issue. This method is then combined with the recently developed wavefunction matching technique, and the charge radii of oxygen isotopes are well reproduced using high-fidelity chiral effective field theory interactions.
  
  Speaker: Zhengxue Ren (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  
  Charge_radii_ZhengxueRen.pptx
- 14:45 → 15:30
  
  Lattice simulation of nucleon distribution and shell closure in 22Si 45m
  
  In this report, we focus on 22Si, likely the lightest bound nucleus with Tz=−3, using Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory (NLEFT) with chiral forces. Our calculations agree with existing data and predict it as a proton-dripline nucleus, along with its 2+ state, radius, and spatial properties. Using nucleon ordering operators, we reveal nucleon spatial arrangement and localization, linked to shell closure features. Moreover, we introduce a novel pinhole method bridging NLEFT and shell model, offering new perspectives into a more comprehensive understanding of nuclear structure.
  
  Speaker: Shuang zhang
  
  Beijing2025BUAA0301.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 16:45
  
  Carbon and Oxygen isotopes in NLEFT 45m
  
  We study Carbon and Oxygen isotopes in NLEFT by using Wave Function Matching method with high fidelity Hamiltonian.
  
  Speaker: Young-Ho Song (IRIS, IBS)
  
  20250301_Beijing_yhsong.pdf
- 16:45 → 17:30
  
  Lattice calculation of nuclear magnetic moments 45m
  
  We present calculations of nuclear magnetic moments for light nuclei and aluminum isotopes using nuclear lattice effective field theory with the N3LO chiral interaction. Both one- and two-body electromagnetic current effects are included in the calculations. For all nuclei considered, the lattice results are generally consistent with experimental data. We find that the contribution from two-body currents is relatively small, typically below 10%. However, for magnetic moments of certain nuclei, nuclear structure effects play a significant role
  
  Speaker: Teng Wang
  
  Dipole Moment.pdf
Sunday, 2 March
- 09:00 → 09:45
  
  NLEFT calculations with perturbative QMC method 45m
  
  Speaker: B.-N. Lyu
  
  20250222_BHU_bnlu.pdf
- 09:45 → 10:30
  
  Nuclear Lattice EFT Simulation with Woods-Saxon Potential 45m
  
  Experimental exploration of neutron dripline is very challenging, and neon is the heaviest nucleus measured neutron dripline experimentally. Prediction of dripline heavier nuclei than neon is currently depends on theoretical approaches. However, there exist strong model-dependence in the prediction of the dripline in theoretical approach. Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory is one of the ab initio approach to explore the quantum many-body systems. In this talk, I will give a talk about the nuclear properties of Oxygen isotopes under the Woods-Saxon potential which is semi ab initio near the neutron dripline using lattice Monte Carlo simulations.
  
  Speaker: Dr Myungkuk Kim (CENS/IBS)
  
  MKim_Frontier_NLEFT.pdf
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:45
  
  Ab initio calculation of hyper-neutron matter 45m
  
  The equation of state (EoS) of neutron matter plays a decisive role to understand the neutron star properties and the gravitational waves from neutron star mergers. At sufficient densities, the appearance of hyperons generally softens the EoS, leading to a reduction in the maximum mass of neutron stars well below the observed values of about 2 solar masses. Even though repulsive three-body forces are known to solve this so-called ``hyperon puzzle'', so far performing \textit{ab initio} Monte Carlo calculations with a substantial number of hyperons has remained elusive. We address this challenge by employing Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory with up to 232 neutrons and 116 $\Lambda$ hyperons in a finite volume. We introduce a novel auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, allowing us to simulate both pure neutron matter and hyper-neutron matter up to 5 times the
  density of nuclear matter using a single auxiliary field without any sign oscillations. Also, for the first time in {\em ab initio} Monte Carlo calculations, we not only include $N\Lambda$ two-body and $NN\Lambda$ three-body forces, but also $\Lambda\Lambda$ and $N\Lambda\Lambda$ interactions. Consequently, we determine essential astrophysical quantities such as the neutron star mass-radius relation and confirm the existence of the universal $I$-Love-$Q$ relation.
  
  Speaker: Dr Hui Tong
  
  HTong_20250302.pdf
- 11:45 → 12:30
  
  Hypernuclei on the lattice 45m
  
  Understanding the strong interaction beyond the up and down quark sector is crucial for an accurate and comprehensive description of nuclear forces. The inclusion of hyperons, in particular the $\Lambda$, extends the nuclear chart to a third dimension. We therefore present an extension of the NLEFT framework to the strangeness sector. In particular we focus on light to medium mass hypernuclei in the $S=-1$ sector.
  
  Speaker: F. Hildenbrand
  
  TalkHildenbrandBeihang.pdf
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 14:45
  
  Studying light hypernuclei based on chiral interactions 45m
  
  Chiral interactions provide a systematic approach to baryonic interactions resulting in a high accuracy description of NN and YN interactions [1,2]. For a similar description of many-baryon systems at least 3BFs are necessary which can be consistently obtained using chiral effective field theory. In this contribution, I report on our recent progress to further constrain these interactions based on reliable results for light hypernuclei up to $A=8$.
  We use the hypernuclei data to determine the charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) of YN interactions and for exploring the results using and isospin multiplets of hypernuclei [3,4].
  We then employ the results of different chiral orders to reliably estimate the theoretical uncertainty [5]. Finally, we use the separation energies of light hypernuclei to pin down the leading chiral YNN interaction [6].
  
  [1] J.Haidenbauer, U.G.Meißner and A.Nogga, Eur. Phys. J. A 56 (2020) no.3, 91 [arXiv:1906.11681 [nucl-th]].
   [2] J.Haidenbauer, U.G.Meißner, A.Nogga and H.Le, Eur. Phys. J. A 59 (2023), 63 [arXiv:2301.00722 [nucl-th]].  
  [3] J.Haidenbauer, U.G.Meißner and A.Nogga, Few Body Syst. 62 (2021), 105 [arXiv:2107.01134 [nucl-th]].
   [4] H.Le, J.Haidenbauer, U.G.Meißner and A.Nogga, Phys. Rev. C 107 (2023), 024002 [arXiv:2210.03387 [nucl-th]].
   [5] H.Le, J.Haidenbauer, U.G.Meißner and A.Nogga,Eur. Phys. J. A 60 (2024), 3 [arXiv:2308.01756 [nucl-th]].
  [6] H.Le, J.Haidenbauer, U.G.Meißner and A.Nogga [arXiv:2409.18577 [nucl-th]].
  
  Speaker: Andreas Nogga (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  
  talk-NLEFT-2025-nogga.pdf
- 14:45 → 15:30
  
  Chiral interactions with gradient-flow regulator 45m
  
  Speaker: H. Krebs
  
  talk.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 16:45
  
  Halo Nuclei and multineutron correlations 45m
  
  Speaker: H.-W. Hammer
  
  NLEFT25Hammer.pdf
- 16:45 → 17:30
  
  Nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double beta decay from relativistic effective field theory 45m
  
  Speaker: P. Zhao
  
  ZhaoPW.pdf
Monday, 3 March
- 09:00 → 09:45
  
  An accurate relativistic chiral nuclear force 45m
  
  Speaker: J.-X. Lu
  
  CoNF-N3LO-3月会议-En(1).pdf
- 09:45 → 10:30
  
  Neural-network variational Monte Carlo for atomic nuclei 45m
  
  Quantum Monte Carlo approaches based upon Feynman path integrals are powerful for addressing quantum many-body problems. However, they generally suffer from the “fermion-sign problem” that leads to exponential scaling of the computation effort with system size. As an alternative, the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) approach avoids such sign problems, but the challenge becomes how to construct an efficient and accurate variational ansatz. In this talk, I will introduce our recent developments in the neural-network ansatz for the VMC approach. I will show that the VMC calculations with neural-network ansatz can provide accurate solutions for the ground states of few- and many-body nuclei while keeping the computational cost polynomially scaling with system size, thanks to the strong expressive power of neural networks.
  
  Speaker: Mr Yi-long Yang (Peking University)
  
  ylyang@Beihang.pdf
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:45
  
  Effective range expansion with the left hand cut 45m
  
  Speaker: F.-K. Guo
  
  LHC_FKGuo.pdf
- 11:45 → 12:30
  
  The three-body DD*K system on the lattice EFT 45m
  
  We employ the nuclear lattice effective field theory (NLEFT), an efficient tool for nuclear ab. initio calculations, to solve the asymmetric multi-hadron systems. We take the DD∗K three-body system as an illustration to demonstrate the capability of the method. Here the two-body chiral interactions between D, D* and K are regulated with a soft lattice regulator and calibrated with the
  binding energies of the Tcc, Ds0(2317) and Ds1(2460) molecular states. We then calculate the threebody binding energy using the NLEFT and analyze the systematic uncertainties due to the finite volume effects, the sliding cutoff and the leading-order three-body forces. Even when the three-body interaction is repulsive (even as large as the infinite repulsive interaction), the three-body system has a bound state unambiguously with binding energy no larger than the Ds1(2460)D threshold. To check the renormalization group invariance of our framework, we extract the first excited state. We find that when the ground state is fixed, the first excited states with various cutoffs coincide with
  each other when the cubic size goes larger. In addition, the standard angular momentum and parity projection technique is implemented for the quantum numbers of the ground and excited states. We find that both of them are S-wave states with quantum number J^P = 1−. Because the three-body state contains two charm quarks, it is easier to be detected in the Large Hadron Collider.
  
  Speaker: Q. Wang
  
  QW_LEFT2025.pdf
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 14:45
  
  Exotic Nuclear Properties in Deformed Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov Theory 45m
  
  Speaker: Y. Kim
  
  NLEFT-DRHBc-YKim.pdf
- 14:45 → 15:30
  
  Ab initio nuclear mass model and the emergence of nuclear magicity 45m
  
  How the nuclear magicity emerge from the underlying nuclear forces? Conventional understanding is based on the picture of the mean field, in which the nucleons move individually around onion-like orbits. Such a picture lacks the important many-body correlations and the connection to the bare nucleon-nucleon forces is obscure. We present a lattice nuclear force model capturing the essential elements of the nuclear binding and emergence of the magicity. Our model contains five adjustable parameters fitted to binding energies of medium-mass nuclei and can be solved non-perturbatively with sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo techniques. We obtain precision nuclear binding energies for A<=56 with an accuracy comparable with the state-of-the-art mean field models. Based on these numerial results, we discuss the dual role of the spin-orbit coupling in NN scattering and nuclear shell evolution.
  
  Speaker: Z. Niu
  
  nzw.mass modelv2.0(30min)final.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 16:45
  
  An Efficient Learning Method to Connect Observables 45m
  
  Constructing fast and accurate surrogate models is a key ingredient for making robust predictions in many topics. We present a new model, the Multiparameter Eigenvalue Problem (MEP) emulator. Our new emulator connects emulators and can make predictions directly from observables to observables. We demonstrate that our MEP emulator can connect both Eigenvector Continuation (EC) and Parametric Matrix Model (PMM) emulators. We show an immediate application to the uncertainty quantification of valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group calculations.
  
  Speaker: Hang Yu (Center for Computational Sciences, Univesity of Tsukuba)
  
  FNLEFT-hang.pdf
- 16:45 → 17:30
  
  First lattice calculations of the threshold electroweak pion production from a nucleon 45m
  
  Nucleon pion production is an important process to study the low energy features, especially the chiral behaviours of QCD. The process receive strong attention since 1950s from experimental side, and would still play a crucial role to control the systematic effects in future neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments. Theoretically, though Chiral Perturbation Theory (Chipt) has given fruitful results, a first principle evaluation is still of great significance to understand QCD dynamics and to systematically control the errors. In this work, we present the first lattice calculations of both electro-production and weak-production process from a nucleon utilizing two domain wall fermion ensembles at physical pion mass. We analyze all the possible systematic effects, and the results show good consistency with Chipt at low energy region. The work shed light on future lattice calculations on electroweak pion production process.
  
  Speaker: Z. Zhang
  
  Zhaolong_Zhang.pdf
- 17:30 → 17:40
  
  Discussion and farewell 10m
  
  Speakers: Ulf Meißner, S. Shen