Surrey Nuclear Theory Group
@surreynuctheory.bsky.social
News from the nuclear theory group at the University of Surrey. We are: Paul Stevenson, Alexis Diaz-Torres, Esra Yüksel, Matteo Vorrabi, Natasha Timofeyuk and a changing roster of postdocs and students
Final version of C-12 + C-12 fusion paper from student Grant Close published today doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Final version of C-12 + C-12 fusion paper from student Grant Close published today doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
A nuclear theory / quantum computing job available at LANL: lanl.jobs/search/jobde...
Nuclear Theory Postdoctoral Researcher in Quantum Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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September 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A nuclear theory / quantum computing job available at LANL: lanl.jobs/search/jobde...
New papers from group:
• Carbon burning calculations from PhD student Grant Close, published in Physics Letters B (doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...)
• Reaction rates in hot environments for neutron capture on Os-188 from PhD student Nick Lightfoot, out today on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2509.12404)
• Carbon burning calculations from PhD student Grant Close, published in Physics Letters B (doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...)
• Reaction rates in hot environments for neutron capture on Os-188 from PhD student Nick Lightfoot, out today on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2509.12404)
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September 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New papers from group:
• Carbon burning calculations from PhD student Grant Close, published in Physics Letters B (doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...)
• Reaction rates in hot environments for neutron capture on Os-188 from PhD student Nick Lightfoot, out today on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2509.12404)
• Carbon burning calculations from PhD student Grant Close, published in Physics Letters B (doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...)
• Reaction rates in hot environments for neutron capture on Os-188 from PhD student Nick Lightfoot, out today on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2509.12404)
Paper ft our Phil Walker, working with (ex-Surrey) Piet van Isacker, and Bhoomika, who has lots of separate projects with different group members. This paper's on understanding nuclear structure properties of NEEC (nuclear excitation by electron capture) candidates: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...
Quantifying neutron-proton interactions in $N=51$ isotones: From the NEEC candidate $^{93}\mathrm{Mo}$ to $^{99}\mathrm{Cd}$
We present a shell-model analysis of $N=51$ isotones, $^{93}\mathrm{Mo}, ^{95}\mathrm{Ru}, ^{97}\mathrm{Pd}$, and $^{99}\mathrm{Cd}$ to quantify the role of neutron-proton interactions in shaping the ...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Paper ft our Phil Walker, working with (ex-Surrey) Piet van Isacker, and Bhoomika, who has lots of separate projects with different group members. This paper's on understanding nuclear structure properties of NEEC (nuclear excitation by electron capture) candidates: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...
New prepring ft our Joe Gibbs on scattering simulations on IBM quantum hardware arxiv.org/abs/2507.17832
Resource-Efficient Simulations of Particle Scattering on a Digital Quantum Computer
We develop and demonstrate methods for simulating the scattering of particle wave packets in the interacting Thirring model on digital quantum computers, with hardware implementations on up to 80 qubi...
arxiv.org
July 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New prepring ft our Joe Gibbs on scattering simulations on IBM quantum hardware arxiv.org/abs/2507.17832
PhD student Miriam Davies has a new paper out today in Phys Rev C, showing how spherical oxygen nuclei spontaneously break up into 4 alpha particles as they become more dilute, making a tetrahedron shape doi.org/10.1103/wrzp...
$\ensuremath{\alpha}$-particle condensation in diluted $^{16}\mathrm{O}$ at finite temperature
Nuclei are often viewed as drops of nuclear matter, but we also know that $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ clusters can play an important role in nuclear structure. A relativistic mean-field calculation of ${}^{...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
PhD student Miriam Davies has a new paper out today in Phys Rev C, showing how spherical oxygen nuclei spontaneously break up into 4 alpha particles as they become more dilute, making a tetrahedron shape doi.org/10.1103/wrzp...
A new paper on calculating gamma ray strength functions ft Esra Yüksel appeared this week in Physical Review C: doi.org/10.1103/96g9...
Electric and magnetic $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray strength functions at finite temperature
The $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray strength function ($\ensuremath{\gamma}\mathrm{SF}$) is essential for understanding the electromagnetic response in atomic nuclei and modeling astrophysical neutron captu...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A new paper on calculating gamma ray strength functions ft Esra Yüksel appeared this week in Physical Review C: doi.org/10.1103/96g9...
New paper day! Post-Doc Nick Thompson leading some work on enhancing nuclear fusion with lasers, with supervisor Alexis DIaz-Torres, and (now ex-)postdoc Laura Moschini journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...
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July 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New paper day! Post-Doc Nick Thompson leading some work on enhancing nuclear fusion with lasers, with supervisor Alexis DIaz-Torres, and (now ex-)postdoc Laura Moschini journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...
Variance minimization algorithm on quantum computer for nuclear structure: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...
Variance minimization for nuclear structure on a quantum computer
Quantum computing can potentially provide advantages for specific computational tasks. The simulation of fermionic systems is one such task that lends itself well to quantum computation, with applicat...
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June 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Variance minimization algorithm on quantum computer for nuclear structure: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...
Seccond Surrey theory preprint of the week: Matteo Vorabbi et al. on fully microscopic scattering theory arxiv.org/abs/2506.15406
Towards a microscopic description of nucleus-nucleus collisions
We present the first results of a comprehensive microscopic approach to describe nucleus-nucleus elastic collisions by means of an optical potential derived at first order in multiple-scattering theor...
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Seccond Surrey theory preprint of the week: Matteo Vorabbi et al. on fully microscopic scattering theory arxiv.org/abs/2506.15406
New preprint day! "Hot pygmy dipole strength in nickel isotopes" ft our Esra Yüksel arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13354
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June 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
New preprint day! "Hot pygmy dipole strength in nickel isotopes" ft our Esra Yüksel arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13354
New preprint from group PhD student Joe Gibbs: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02105
Learning Circuits with Infinite Tensor Networks
Hamiltonian simulation on quantum computers is strongly constrained by gate counts, motivating techniques to reduce circuit depths. While tensor networks are natural competitors to quantum computers, ...
arxiv.org
June 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New preprint from group PhD student Joe Gibbs: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02105
New paper from @pdstevenson.bsky.social and summer project student Lara Tatli on equation solving with quantum computation mpcs.sci.am/index.php/mp...
A Quantum Diophantine Equation Solution Finder
| Mathematical Problems of Computer Science
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June 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
New paper from @pdstevenson.bsky.social and summer project student Lara Tatli on equation solving with quantum computation mpcs.sci.am/index.php/mp...
Two of our students' PhD theses released on @surreylib.bsky.social's repository today: Isaac Hobday (doi.org/10.15126/the...) and Lance Li (doi.org/10.15126/the...) - both on different aspects of quantum computing for nuclear physics. Well done both!
May 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Two of our students' PhD theses released on @surreylib.bsky.social's repository today: Isaac Hobday (doi.org/10.15126/the...) and Lance Li (doi.org/10.15126/the...) - both on different aspects of quantum computing for nuclear physics. Well done both!
New preprint ft postdoc Nick and supervisor Alexis on laser-assisted nuclear fusion arxiv.org/abs/2505.15390
Enhancing the creation of elements in laser-assisted heavy-ion fusion reactions
Low-energy fusion of heavy ions is a fascinating coupling-assisted quantum tunnelling problem, whose understanding is crucial for advancing the synthesis of new elements and isotopes. Quantum dynamica...
arxiv.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
New preprint ft postdoc Nick and supervisor Alexis on laser-assisted nuclear fusion arxiv.org/abs/2505.15390
New paper from a MSc student Revathi Bhukya with supervisor Alexis Diaz-Torres on the dynamics of heavy ion collisions doi.org/10.1142/S021...
Modern Physics Letters A
MPLA is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing research and reviews in Cosmology, Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics, and Quantum Information.
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May 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New paper from a MSc student Revathi Bhukya with supervisor Alexis Diaz-Torres on the dynamics of heavy ion collisions doi.org/10.1142/S021...
New paper from Natasha Timofeyuk on clusters of helium atoms iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Natural and Dyson orbitals in small helium drops - IOPscienceSearch
Natural and Dyson orbitals in small helium drops, Timofeyuk, Natalia
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May 16, 2025 at 7:35 AM
New paper from Natasha Timofeyuk on clusters of helium atoms iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
New paper on a shell model study of isospin-breaking ft our Chandan Sarma from his PhD studies has appeared. Congrats Chandan! doi.org/10.1016/j.nu...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New paper on a shell model study of isospin-breaking ft our Chandan Sarma from his PhD studies has appeared. Congrats Chandan! doi.org/10.1016/j.nu...
Nuclear physics in Finland (blogpost) blogoftheisotopes.blogspot.com/2025/05/nucl...
Nuclear Physics in Finland
Through one of those more useful email services that send me a list of recent papers I might be intersted in, I came across a history of nuc...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Nuclear physics in Finland (blogpost) blogoftheisotopes.blogspot.com/2025/05/nucl...
New paper ft our emeritus Prof Ron Johnson - First Experimental Test of the Ratio Method doi.org/10.1016/j.nu...
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May 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
New paper ft our emeritus Prof Ron Johnson - First Experimental Test of the Ratio Method doi.org/10.1016/j.nu...
Electromagnetic Dipole Transitions in Nuclei at Finite Temperature - new from Esra & colleagues from Zagreb doi.org/10.1051/epjc...
Electromagnetic dipole transitions in nuclei at finite temperature | EPJ Web of ConferencesMendeley
EPJ Web of Conferences, open-access proceedings in physics and astronomy
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April 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Electromagnetic Dipole Transitions in Nuclei at Finite Temperature - new from Esra & colleagues from Zagreb doi.org/10.1051/epjc...
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A postdoc in quantum computing for nuclear physics: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/299...
University of Arizona, Physics
Job #AJO29906, Postdoctoral Research Position in Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Quantum Information Science, Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US
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April 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A postdoc in quantum computing for nuclear physics: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/299...
Congratulations to Isaac Hobday on his Phys Rev C paper being accepted for publication journals.aps.org/prc/accepted...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congratulations to Isaac Hobday on his Phys Rev C paper being accepted for publication journals.aps.org/prc/accepted...
A new paper accepted in Mod Phys Lett A from an MSc project with Alexis Diaz-Torres by student Revathi Bhukya on pre-contact transfer of nucleons in heavy-ion collisions. Preprint on institutional repository available in link openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outp...
April 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A new paper accepted in Mod Phys Lett A from an MSc project with Alexis Diaz-Torres by student Revathi Bhukya on pre-contact transfer of nucleons in heavy-ion collisions. Preprint on institutional repository available in link openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outp...
New preprint day! gamma-ray strength functions inc E1 and M1 contributions at finite temperature, ft. Esra Yüksel from Surrey in collaboration with Zagreb group arxiv.org/abs/2504.00699
Electric and magnetic $γ$-ray strength functions at finite-temperature
The $γ$-ray strength function ($γ$SF) is essential for understanding the electromagnetic response in atomic nuclei and modeling astrophysical neutron capture rates. We introduced a microscopic descrip...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
New preprint day! gamma-ray strength functions inc E1 and M1 contributions at finite temperature, ft. Esra Yüksel from Surrey in collaboration with Zagreb group arxiv.org/abs/2504.00699