Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Computations

Coupled-cluster theory is one of the most promising ab initio microscopic theories that can potentially provide a highly accurate description of a variety of many-body physical systems. In this project, codes specifically tailored for the nuclear many-body problem will be coupled with the significant developments of coupled-cluster theory that have occurred in quantum chemistry. With application of these techniques to the nuclear problem, the objective of this project is to calculate ground, excited, closedshell and open-shell, non-degenerate and quasi-degenerate states of nuclei and certain nuclear properties.