Frontiers and challenges in coupled-cluster computations of atomic nuclei

SFB Kolloquium, S2|11 10

06.10.2025

Thomas Papenbrock (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

The talk presents the frontiers and challenges in coupled-cluster computations of atomic nuclei. Resolution frontier: capturing multi-scale physics (i.e., binding energies that are 100s of MeV and excitation energies that are 100s of keV) is possible by breaking and restoring symmetries. Our computations reveal shape coexistence in 30Ne. Mass frontier: computations of the doubly magic superheavy nucleus 266Pb show that its excitation spectrum is similar to that of 208Pb (i.e. a 3-minus excitation is below the lowest 2-plus state), and that 268Pb is unbound with respect to 266Pb. Finally, the talk introduces NuLattice, a Python software package for ab initio computations of atomic nuclei on lattices.