Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

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Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a
wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics …

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ranging from hundreds of MeV in binding
energies to fractions of an MeV for low-lying collective excitations. As the limits of nuclear …

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 …

Nuclei around N≈ Z≈ 40 are strongly deformed and exhibit coexistence of shapes. These
phenomena have challenged nuclear models. Here, we perform ab initio coupled-cluster …

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 …

Collinear laser spectroscopy is performed on the nickel isotopes Ni 58-68, 70, using a time-
resolved photon counting system. From the measured isotope shifts, nuclear charge radii R …

Charge radii of neutron deficient Sc 40 and Sc 41 nuclei were determined using collinear
laser spectroscopy. With the new data, the chain of Sc charge radii extends below the …

We propose a novel many-body framework combining the density matrix renormalization
group (DMRG) with the valence-space (VS) formulation of the in-medium similarity …