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Nuclear theory sits at the fascinating intersection of particle physics and the forces that hold our universe together. This field explores how protons and neutrons bind inside atomic nuclei, seeking to understand the fundamental interactions that govern matter at its most dense and energetic levels. While the mathematics involved can be incredibly complex, the core questions are deeply human: how does the universe function at its smallest scales, and what happens when we push matter to its limits?
At Gist.Science, we make these cutting-edge discoveries accessible by processing every new preprint published in this category on arXiv. Our team transforms dense academic manuscripts into clear, plain-language summaries alongside detailed technical overviews, ensuring that both experts and curious readers can grasp the latest breakthroughs without getting lost in the jargon. Below are the latest papers in nuclear theory, distilled and ready for you to explore.
This paper employs a spherical-tensor formalism to demonstrate that the Mott-insulating ground state of the Jahn–Teller–Hubbard molecule in AC is characterized by local electron–phonon entanglement and composite quadrupole moments that vanish in conventional electronic and lattice observables, revealing a unique multiplet structure distinct from standard quadrupolar degrees of freedom.
This paper presents a configuration-space Faddeev formalism that unifies all scattering processes between single and double continua into a single matrix, which is demonstrated through its application to neutron-deuteron scattering.
This paper utilizes Born-Oppenheimer effective field theory (BOEFT) to systematically quantify open-flavor threshold effects on the quarkonium spectrum by solving coupled Schrödinger equations with lattice-constrained static potentials, successfully reproducing experimental data and providing a field-theoretical interpretation of the phenomenological model's pair-creation constant.
This paper proposes that the appropriate initial conditions for hydrodynamic evolution in small collision systems can be derived by coarse-graining the proton's quantum wave function into a semi-classical, positive-definite Wehrl-like entropy, thereby bridging the gap between pure quantum states and the maximally mixed states required by relativistic hydrodynamics.
This paper presents a systematic calculation of non-dissipative, quantum-origin second-order hydrodynamic corrections to the stress-energy tensor and currents for free boson and Dirac fields in thermal vorticity, deriving their Kubo formulae via equilibrium correlators and demonstrating that the axial current receives vorticity-proportional corrections independent of anomalous terms.
This paper investigates normal mode analysis in relativistic massive transport by demonstrating how particle mass induces coupling between sound and heat channels, alters the branch cut structure responsible for Landau damping, and leads to non-monotonic dependencies in the critical wavenumbers for collective modes.
This paper introduces a novel qubit mapping strategy for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver that assigns qubits to Slater determinants rather than single-particle states, enabling low-circuit-depth simulations of various nuclei on NISQ devices with errors mitigated by Zero-Noise Extrapolation to achieve less than 4% deviation from shell model predictions.
This review paper examines hadron structure within the covariant Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model as a chiral effective theory of QCD, demonstrating its ability to replicate spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and confinement while validating consistency with parton distribution functions and electromagnetic form factors against experimental data and future collider prospects.
This paper presents a unified framework within the NuWro Monte Carlo generator that consistently treats final-state interactions in quasielastic lepton-nucleus scattering by combining convolution-based inclusive calculations with an event-level cascade classification, significantly improving agreement with both inclusive electron-scattering data and exclusive MicroBooNE measurements.
This paper presents the first uncertainty-quantified neutron-capture cross section for Al, demonstrating that the USDBUQ500 shell model interaction yields nuclear level densities and radiative strength functions with constant uncertainties of 6% and 9%, respectively, which propagate to a 5–25% non-Gaussian uncertainty in the cross section.