1–3 Oct 2025
Cortona
Europe/Rome timezone

NQS for Hypernuclei, Neural-IDF, and Equivariant NQS for Excited-State Targeting

2 Oct 2025, 14:20
20m
Il Palazzone (Cortona)

Il Palazzone

Cortona

Speaker

Mr Andrea Di Donna (INFN - Unitn)

Description

Three advances in Neural Quantum States for nuclear physics: (i) We develop a Pfaffian–Jastrow VMC-NQS ansatz for single-$\Lambda$ hypernuclei. Calibrated via Gaussian-process assisted LO pionless EFT it reproduces s- and p-shell binding and $\Lambda$-separation energies, capturing the proton "shrinkage" in $^{7}_{\Lambda}\mathrm{Li}$ relative to $^{6}\mathrm{Li}$; (ii) Neural Interacting Dynamical Fields (Neural-IDF) are a continuation of Madeira’s dynamical-pion QMC recast as an NQS, treating pion modes as explicit variational DOFs jointly sampled with nucleons, enabling a unified N-$\pi$ description; (iii) Excited states $-$ an explicitly $SO(3)$-equivariant backflow architecture targets $J>0$ states.

Author

Mr Andrea Di Donna (INFN - Unitn)

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