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Ab initio study of Z(N) = 6 magicity
H. Li, H. J. Ong, D. Fang +7
The existence of magic numbers of protons and neutrons in nuclei is essential for understanding nuclear structure and fundamental nuclear forces. Over decades, researchers have con…
Sub-barrier d+Pb scattering and sensitivity to nucleon-nucleon interactions
Peng Yin, Weijie Du, Wei Zuo +2
We employ the non-perturbative time-dependent basis function (tBF) approach to solve for the sub-Coulomb barrier scattering of the deuteron projectile on the Pb target. Spe…
Ab initio nuclear structure via quantum adiabatic algorithm
Weijie Du, James P. Vary, Xingbo Zhao +1
Background: Solving nuclear many-body problems with an ab initio approach is widely recognized as a computationally challenging problem. Quantum computers offer a promising path to…
Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Inelastic Scattering
Weijie Du, James P. Vary, Xingbo Zhao +1
We present a time-dependent quantum algorithm for nuclear inelastic scattering in the time-dependent basis function on qubits approach. This algorithm aims to quantum simulate a su…
Recent Progress in Basis Light-front Quantization
Xingbo Zhao, Kaiyu Fu, Hengfei Zhao +4
Basis Light-front Quantization (BLFQ) is a nonperturbative approach to quantum field theory. In this paper, we report our recent progress in applying BLFQ to the positronium system…
Positronium on the light front
Kaiyu Fu, Hengfei Zhao, Xingbo Zhao +1
Basis Light-front Quantization (BLFQ) is a newly developed nonperturbative approach, aiming at solving relativistic bound systems based on the Hamiltonian formalism of light-front…
Ultrarelativistic quark-nucleus scattering in a light-front Hamiltonian approach
Meijian Li, Xingbo Zhao, Pieter Maris +4
We investigate the scattering of a quark on a heavy nucleus at high energies using the time-dependent basis light-front quantization (tBLFQ) formalism, which is the first applicati…
Scattering in strong electromagnetic fields: transverse size effects in tBLFQ
Bolun Hu, Anton Ilderton, Xingbo Zhao
The framework of 'time-dependent basis light-front quantisation' (tBLFQ) offers a non-perturbative approach to scattering problems in external fields, based on Fock space truncatio…
Basis Light-Front Quantization for a Chiral Nucleon-Pion Lagrangian
Weijie Du, Yang Li, Xingbo Zhao +2
We present the first application of the Basis Light-Front Quantization method to a simple chiral model of the nucleon-pion system as a relativistic bound state for the physical pro…
Parton Distribution Functions of Heavy Mesons on the Light Front
Jiangshan Lan, Chandan Mondal, Meijian Li +4
The parton distribution functions (PDFs) of heavy mesons are evaluated from their light-front wave functions, which are obtained from a basis light-front quantization in the leadin…
Sub Coulomb barrier d+Pb scattering in the time-dependent basis function approach
Peng Yin, Weijie Du, Wei Zuo +2
We employ the non-perturbative time-dependent basis function (tBF) approach to study the scattering of the deuteron on Pb below the Coulomb barrier. We obtain the bound and…
Dynamical Nucleon-Pion System via Basis Light-Front Quantization
Weijie Du, Yang Li, Xingbo Zhao +1
We present the first application of the Basis Light-Front Quantization method to study a simple chiral model of the nucleon-pion system via an ab initio, non-perturbative, Hamilton…
Pion and kaon parton distribution functions from basis light front quantization and QCD evolution
Jiangshan Lan, Chandan Mondal, Shaoyang Jia +2
We investigate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion and the kaon by combining quantum chromodynamics (QCD) evolution with the basis light front quantization. The in…
Parton Distribution Functions from a Light Front Hamiltonian and QCD Evolution for Light Mesons
Jiangshan Lan, Chandan Mondal, Shaoyang Jia +2
We obtain the pion and the kaon parton distribution functions from the eigenstates of a light front effective Hamiltonian in the constituent quark-antiquark representation suitable…
Hadron Spectra, Decays and Scattering Properties within Basis Light Front Quantization
James P. Vary, Lekha Adhikari, Guangyao Chen +10
We survey recent progress in calculating properties of the electron and hadrons within the Basis Light Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach. We include applications to electromagneti…
Coulomb Excitation of Deuteron in Peripheral Collisions with a Heavy Ion
Weijie Du, Peng Yin, Yang Li +4
We develop an ab initio, non-perturbative, time-dependent Basis Function (tBF) method to solve the nuclear structure and scattering problems in a unified manner. We apply this meth…
Deuteron Coulomb Excitation in Peripheral Collisions with a Heavy Ion
Weijie Du, Peng Yin, Guangyao Chen +2
We develop and test an ab initio time-dependent Basis Function (tBF) method to solve non-perturbative and time-dependent problems in quantum mechanics. For our test problem, we app…
Particle distribution in intense fields in a light-front Hamiltonian approach
Guangyao Chen, Xingbo Zhao, Yang Li +2
We study the real-time evolution of an electron influenced by intense electromagnetic fields using the time-dependent basis light-front quantization (tBLFQ) framework. We focus on…
Trends and Progress in Nuclear and Hadron Physics: a straight or winding road
James P. Vary, Lekha Adhikari, Guangyao Chen +8
Quantitative calculations of the properties of hadrons and nuclei, with assessed uncertainties, have emerged as competitive with experimental measurements in a number of major case…
Form Factors and Generalized Parton Distributions in Basis Light-Front Quantization
Lekha Adhikari, Yang Li, Xingbo Zhao +3
We calculate the elastic form factors and the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) for four low-lying bound states of a demonstration fermion-antifermion system, strong coupling…
Non-perturbative Calculation of the Positronium Mass Spectrum in Basis Light-Front Quantization
Paul Wiecki, Yang Li, Xingbo Zhao +2
We report on recent improvements to our non-perturbative calculation of the positronium spectrum. Our Hamiltonian is a two-body effective interaction which incorporates one-photon…
Advances in Basis Light-front Quantization
Xingbo Zhao
Basis Light-front Quantization has been developed as a first-principles nonperturbative approach to quantum field theory. In this article we report our recent progress on the appli…
Applications of Basis Light-Front Quantization to QED
James P. Vary, Xingbo Zhao, Anton Ilderton +3
Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory provides a framework for calculating both static and dynamic properties of strongly interacting relativistic systems. Invariant masses,…
Basis Light-Front Quantization Approach to Positronium
Paul Wiecki, Yang Li, Xingbo Zhao +2
We present the first application of the recently developed Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) method to self-bound systems in quantum field theory, using the positronium system…