Abstract:<\/strong> Computing has reshaped nuclear theory in the past two decades. The ever-increasing Bio<\/strong>: Thomas Papenbrock is a professor in the Physics department with interests in nuclear theory, widely construed, and a Joint Faculty with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He specializes in systematic improvable models for atomic nuclei and in computing rare isotopes from scratch. Very recently, he became interested in quantum computing and performed the first computation of an atomic nucleus on a quantum chip. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.<\/p>\n Wednesday, October 7, 2026 @ 1:00pm (CST) in Commons Center 235\/ 237<\/p>\n Host: Kalman Varga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thomas Papenbrock, University of Tennessee- Knoxville Classical and Quantum Computations of Atomic Nuclei Abstract: Computing has reshaped nuclear theory in the past two decades. The ever-increasing power of computers now allows one to model properties of the atomic nucleus with high fidelity, As a consequence, nuclear theory has moved from being mainly explanatory to being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3164\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npower of computers now allows one to model properties of the atomic nucleus with high fidelity, As a
\nconsequence, nuclear theory has moved from being mainly explanatory to being predictive. Recently,
\nquantum computers have emerged as a new technology, and nuclear theorists are exploring how to
\nuse them. This colloquium presents recent advances in classical and quantum computations of
\natomic nuclei.<\/p>\n