A brief account of Steven Weinberg's legacy in ab initio many-body theory

Abstract

In this contribution to the special issue "Celebrating 30 years of Steven Weinberg's papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians," we emphasize the important role chiral effective field theory has played in leading nuclear physics into a precision era. To this end, we share our perspective on a few of the recent advances made in ab initio calculations of nuclear structure and nuclear matter observables, as well as Bayesian uncertainty quantification of effective field theory truncation errors.

arXiv comment10 pages, 6 figures; invited contribution to the special issue in Few-Body Systems "Celebrating 30 years of Steven Weinberg's papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians"; minor improvements, close to published version

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