What is ab initio in nuclear theory?

A Ekström, C Forssén, G Hagen, GR Jansen… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
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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 …

Combining the in-medium similarity renormalization group with the density matrix renormalization group: Shell structure and information entropy

A Tichai, S Knecht, AT Kruppa, Ö Legeza, CP Moca… - Physics Letters B, 2023‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Ab initio calculations for well deformed nuclei: 40Mg and 42Si

Q Yuan, JG Li, HH Li - Physics Letters B, 2024‏ - Elsevier
We performed ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group
calculations based on chiral nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions to study the …

Ab initio calculations for configuration-coexisting states in : An extension from

Q Yuan, JG Li, W Zuo - Physical Review C, 2024‏ - APS
The region of neutron-rich nuclei surrounding N= 28 has garnered attention due to
experimental and theoretical evidence indicating a diversity of shape and configuration …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio calculations of anomalous seniority breaking in the πg9/2 shell for the N= 50 isotones

Q Yuan, BS Hu - Physics Letters B, 2024‏ - Elsevier
We performed ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group (VS-
IMSRG) calculations based on chiral two-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions to …

Deformed natural orbitals for ab initio calculations

A Scalesi, T Duguet, M Frosini, V Somà - The European Physical Journal …, 2025‏ - Springer
The rapid development of ab initio nuclear structure methods towards doubly open-shell
nuclei, heavy nuclei and greater accuracy occurs at the price of evermore increased …

Recent progress in configuration–interaction shell model

M Liu, C Yuan - International Journal of Modern Physics E, 2023‏ - World Scientific
Since Mayer and Jensen employed the single-particle shell model to interpret the magic
numbers, various microscopic nuclear models have been developed to study the nuclear …

Least-square approach for singular value decompositions of scattering problems

A Tichai, P Arthuis, K Hebeler, M Heinz, J Hoppe… - Physical Review C, 2022‏ - APS
It was recently observed that chiral two-body interactions can be efficiently represented
using matrix factorization techniques such as the singular value decomposition. However …

Spectroscopic factor calculations in the ab initio no-core shell model

MR **e, JG Li, N Michel, W Zuo - Physical Review C, 2024‏ - APS
The convergence properties of spectroscopic factors in the ab initio no-core shell model are
hereby investigated. For this, we consider nuclear energies and spectroscopic factors in A …