Basis light-front quantization approach to deuteron
Abstract
We obtain the deuteron's wave functions as eigenstates of the light-front quantum chromodynamics (QCD) Hamiltonian using a fully relativistic and nonperturbative approach based on light-front quantization, without an explicit confining potential. These eigenstates include six-quark and six-quark--one-gluon components. The deuteron wave function consists of both a singlet-singlet color state and additional hidden color states arising from non-trivial color rearrangements. Our results reveal that while the singlet-singlet state is present, the hidden color states collectively dominate, contributing a larger probability to the deuteron wave function. This highlights the significant role of hidden color components in the QCD description of nuclear structure. Using these wave functions, we investigate the deuteron's electromagnetic properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.12889,
title = {Basis light-front quantization approach to deuteron},
author = {Chandan Mondal and Satvir Kaur and Jiatong Wu and Siqi Xu and Xingbo Zhao and James P. Vary},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12889},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 2 figures; version to appear in Journal of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology; invited talk at the International Conference: Nuclear Theory in the Supercomputing Era - 2024 (NTSE-2024), Busan, Republic of Korea, December 1-7, 2024