Chiral dynamics of few- and many-nucleon systems

TL;DR

This review discusses chiral effective field theory for nuclear forces, recent applications in few-nucleon systems, and introduces nuclear lattice simulations as a new approach for many-body nuclear problems.

Contribution

It provides an overview of chiral EFT for nuclear physics and introduces nuclear lattice simulations as a novel computational method.

Findings

Progress in deriving nuclear Hamiltonians from chiral EFT

Application of lattice simulations to few-nucleon systems

Initial results demonstrating the potential of lattice methods for many-body nuclear physics

Abstract

This review gives a brief introduction to the chiral effective field theory of nuclear forces and atomic nuclei. We discuss the status of the nuclear Hamiltonian derived in this framework and some recent applications in few-nucleon systems. Nuclear lattice simulations as a new tool to address the many-body problem are introduced and some first results based on that method are presented.