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NuLattice: Ab initio computations of atomic nuclei on lattices

Nuclear Theory 2026-02-09 v2

Abstract

We introduce NuLattice, a Python software package for ab initio computations of atomic nuclei on lattices. The computational tools consist of Hartree Fock, the coupled cluster method, the in-medium similarity renormalization group, and full configuration interaction. At present, the employed interactions are from pion-less effective field theory at leading order and consist of two-body and three-body contacts. We present results for light nuclei 2^{2}H, 3,4^{3,4}He, 8^{8}Be, 12^{12}C, and 16^{16}O. NuLattice algorithms exploit the sparsity and locality of lattice interactions, and as a result computations can be run on laptops.

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@article{arxiv.2509.08771,
  title  = {NuLattice: Ab initio computations of atomic nuclei on lattices},
  author = {M. Rothman and B. Johnson-Toth and G. Hagen and M. Heinz and T. Papenbrock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08771},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables, associated Python package available at https://github.com/NuLattice, published version