The contact formalism describes short-range correlations, which play a crucial role in nuclear systems. Initially introduced for ultracold atoms, its generalization to the nuclear case was now validated by ab initio calculations.
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Urban, M. Contact between nucleons. Nat. Phys. 17, 294–295 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01078-y
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