# Microscopic Clustering in Light Nuclei

## TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical advances in understanding microscopic clustering phenomena in light nuclei, highlighting new findings and diverse modeling approaches.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of experimental results and theoretical models addressing nuclear clustering in light nuclei, including ab initio and advanced computational methods.

## Key findings

- Experimental evidence of alpha-conjugate systems
- Identification of molecular structures in neutron-rich nuclei
- Constraints for ab initio nuclear theories

## Abstract

We review recent experimental and theoretical progress in understanding the microscopic details of clustering in light nuclei. We discuss recent experimental results on $\alpha$-conjugate systems, molecular structures in neutron-rich nuclei, and constraints for ab initio theory. We then examine nuclear clustering in a wide range of theoretical methods, including the resonating group and generator coordinate methods, antisymmetrized molecular dynamics, Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-R\"opke wave function and container model, no-core shell model methods, continuum quantum Monte Carlo, and lattice effective field theory.