Recent progress on nuclear potentials from lattice QCD

TL;DR

This paper reviews a new lattice QCD method for deriving nuclear potentials from the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave function, presenting initial results and summarizing recent methodological progress.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to extract nuclear potentials from lattice QCD and reports the first results in quenched QCD.

Findings

Initial results of nuclear potentials from lattice QCD

Methodological advancements in potential extraction

Summary of recent progress in the field

Abstract

A new method for nuclear potentials is reviewed. The strategy to extract the potential from the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave function in lattice QCD is explained and the first result based on the method is presented in quenched QCD. The recent progress of the method is summarized.