Chiral Effective Field Theory after Thirty Years: Nuclear Lattice Simulations

Abstract

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.

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, invited contribution to the special issue in Few-Body Systems "Celebrating 30 years of Steven Weinberg's papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians"