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The introduction of chiral effective field theory by Steven Weinberg three decades ago has had a profound and lasting impact on nuclear physics. This brief review explores the impact of Weinberg’s work on the field of nuclear lattice simulations. Rather than a summary of technical details, an effort is made to present the conceptual advances that made much of the recent progress possible.
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The author is grateful to Jose Manuel Alarcón, Buḡra Borasoy, Lukas Bovermann, Jiunn-Wei Chen, Dechuan Du, Joaquín Drut, Serdar Elhatisari, Evgeny Epelbaum, Dillon Frame, Rongzheng He, Youngman Kim, Nico Klein, Sebastian König, Hermann Krebs, Timo Lähde, Ning Li, Bing-Nan Lu, Yuanzhuo Ma, Ulf-G. Meißner, Michelle Pine, Alexander Rokash, Gautam Rupak, Avik Sarkar, Thomas Schäfer, Shihang Shen, Gianluca Stellin, Young-Ho Song, and all the members of the Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory Collaboration for their deep insights and productive collaboration. Special thanks also to Ulf-G. Meißner for his careful reading and comments on this review. Funding is gratefully acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0013365 and DE-SC0021152) and the Nuclear Computational Low-Energy Initiative (NUCLEI) SciDAC-4 project (DE-SC0018083) as well as computational resources provided by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility through the INCITE award “Ab-initio nuclear structure and nuclear reactions”, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (www.gauss-centre.eu) for computing time on the GCS Supercomputer JUWELS at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), the National Supercomputing Center at the Korea Institute for Science and Technology Information, and the high-performance computing centers at RWTH Aachen University and Michigan State University.
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Lee, D. Chiral Effective Field Theory after Thirty Years: Nuclear Lattice Simulations. Few-Body Syst 62, 115 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-021-01701-5
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