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most citedTowards grounding nuclear physics in QCD

79 citations · 199 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

hep-lat2025★ 4 cited

Di-nucleons do not form bound states at heavy pion mass

John Bulava, M. A. Clark, Arjun S. Gambhir +16

We perform a high-statistics lattice QCD calculation of the low-energy two-nucleon scattering amplitudes. In order to address discrepancies in the literature, the calculation is pe…

quant-ph2023

Adiabatic Quantum Computation with the Fermionic Position Space Schrödinger Equation

Kenneth S. McElvain

The efficient encoding of the fermionic Schrödinger equation as a spin system Hamiltonian is a long-term problem. I describe an encoding for the fermionic position space Schrödinge…

nucl-th2022★ 23 cited

Nuclear-level Effective Theory of Conversion: Formalism and Applications

W. C. Haxton, Evan Rule, Ken McElvain +1

New mu-to-e conversion searches aim to advance limits on charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) by four orders of magnitude. By considering P and CP selection rules and the structu…

quant-ph2022

Gate Based Implementation of the Laplacian with BRGC Code for Universal Quantum Computers

Ermal Rrapaj, Kenneth S. McElvain, Chia Cheng Chang +2

We study the gate-based implementation of the binary reflected Gray code (BRGC) and binary code of the unitary time evolution operator due to the Laplacian discretized on a lattice…

hep-ph2021★ 13 cited

Nuclear-Level Effective Theory of Conversion

Evan Rule, W. C. Haxton, Ken McElvain

The Mu2e and COMET conversion experiments are expected to significantly advance limits on new sources of charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV). Almost all theoret…

quant-ph2021★ 7 cited

Improving Schrödinger Equation Implementations with Gray Code for Adiabatic Quantum Computers

Chia Cheng Chang, Kenneth S. McElvain, Ermal Rrapaj +1

We reformulate the continuous space Schrödinger equation in terms of spin Hamiltonians. For the kinetic energy operator, the critical concept facilitating the reduction in model co…

nucl-th2019★ 79 cited

Towards grounding nuclear physics in QCD

Christian Drischler, Wick Haxton, Kenneth McElvain +4

Exascale computing could soon enable a predictive theory of nuclear structure and reactions rooted in the Standard Model, with quantifiable and systematically improvable uncertaint…

hep-lat2019

Progress in Multibaryon Spectroscopy

Evan Berkowitz, David Brantley, Kenneth McElvain +9

Anchoring the nuclear interaction in QCD is a long-outstanding problem in nuclear physics. While the lattice community has made enormous progress in mesonic physics and single nucl…

nucl-th2019★ 7 cited

Nuclear Physics without High-Momentum Potentials: Constructing the Nuclear Effective Interaction Directly from Scattering Observables

K. S. McElvain, W. C. Haxton

The traditional approach to nuclear physics encodes phase shift information in a nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential, producing a nucleon-level interaction that captures the sub-GeV con…

hep-lat2018★ 12 cited

Simulating the weak death of the neutron in a femtoscale universe with near-Exascale computing

Evan Berkowitz, M. A. Clark, Arjun Gambhir +9

The fundamental particle theory called Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) dictates everything about protons and neutrons, from their intrinsic properties to interactions that bind them i…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 38 cited

BIGSTICK: A flexible configuration-interaction shell-model code (updated)

Calvin W. Johnson, W. Erich Ormand, Kenneth S. McElvain +2

We present BIGSTICK, a flexible configuration-interaction open-source shell-model code for the many-fermion problem. Written mostly in Fortran 90 with some later extensions, BIGSTI…

hep-lat2017★ 12 cited

Job Management and Task Bundling

Evan Berkowitz, Gustav R. Jansen, Kenneth McElvain +1

High Performance Computing is often performed on scarce and shared computing resources. To ensure computers are used to their full capacity, administrators often incentivize large…

nucl-th2016★ 4 cited

Nuclear Physics without High-Momentum Potentials: Direct Construction of the Effective Interaction from Scattering Observables

Kenneth S. McElvain, W. C. Haxton

The standard approach to nuclear physics encodes phase shift information in an NN potential, then decodes that information in forming an effective interaction, appropriate to a low…