Abstract
Ab initio has been used as a label in nuclear theory for over two decades. Its meaning has evolved and broadened over the years. We present our interpretation, briefly review its historical use, and discuss its present-day relation to theoretical uncertainty quantification.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1129094 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Physics |
| Volume | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
Funding
This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 758027), the Swedish Research Council (Grants Nos. 2017-04234, 2020-05127, and 2021-04507), the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award Nos. DE-FG02-96ER40963 and DE-SC0018223. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Keywords
- Bayesian inference
- ab initio nuclear theory
- effective field theory
- many-body methods
- uncertainty quantication