Building Surrogate Models of Nuclear Density Functional Theory with Gaussian Processesand Autoencoders

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Autori principali: Verriere, Marc, Schunck, Nicolas, Kim, Irene, Marević, Petar, Quinlan, Kevin, NGo, Michelle N., Regnier, David, Lasseri, Raphael David
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author Verriere, Marc
Schunck, Nicolas
Kim, Irene
Marević, Petar
Quinlan, Kevin
NGo, Michelle N.
Regnier, David
Lasseri, Raphael David
author_facet Verriere, Marc
Schunck, Nicolas
Kim, Irene
Marević, Petar
Quinlan, Kevin
NGo, Michelle N.
Regnier, David
Lasseri, Raphael David
contents From the lightest Hydrogen isotopes up to the recently synthesized Oganesson (Z=118), it is estimated that as many as about 3000 atomic nuclei could exist in nature. Most of these nuclei are too short-lived to be occurring on Earth, but they play an essential role in astrophysical events such as supernova explosions or neutron star mergers that are presumed to be at the origin of most heavy elements in the Universe. Understanding the structure, reactions, and decays of nuclei across the entire chart of nuclides is an enormous challenge because of the experimental difficulties in measuring properties of interest in such fleeting objects and the theoretical and computational issues of simulating strongly-interacting quantum many-body systems. Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is a fully microscopic theoretical framework which has the potential of providing such a quantitatively accurate description of nuclear properties for every nucleus in the chart of nuclides. Thanks to high-performance computing facilities, it has already been successfully applied to predict nuclear masses, global patterns of radioactive decay like $β$ or $γ$ decay, and several aspects of the nuclear fission process such as, e.g., spontaneous fission half-lives. Yet, predictive simulations of nuclear spectroscopy or of nuclear fission, or the quantification of theoretical uncertainties and their propagation to applications, would require several orders of magnitude more calculations than currently possible. However, most of this computational effort would be spent into generating a suitable basis of DFT wavefunctions. Such a task could potentially be considerably accelerated by borrowing tools from the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we review different approaches to applying supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to nuclear DFT.
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spellingShingle Building Surrogate Models of Nuclear Density Functional Theory with Gaussian Processesand Autoencoders
Verriere, Marc
Schunck, Nicolas
Kim, Irene
Marević, Petar
Quinlan, Kevin
NGo, Michelle N.
Regnier, David
Lasseri, Raphael David
Nuclear Theory
From the lightest Hydrogen isotopes up to the recently synthesized Oganesson (Z=118), it is estimated that as many as about 3000 atomic nuclei could exist in nature. Most of these nuclei are too short-lived to be occurring on Earth, but they play an essential role in astrophysical events such as supernova explosions or neutron star mergers that are presumed to be at the origin of most heavy elements in the Universe. Understanding the structure, reactions, and decays of nuclei across the entire chart of nuclides is an enormous challenge because of the experimental difficulties in measuring properties of interest in such fleeting objects and the theoretical and computational issues of simulating strongly-interacting quantum many-body systems. Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is a fully microscopic theoretical framework which has the potential of providing such a quantitatively accurate description of nuclear properties for every nucleus in the chart of nuclides. Thanks to high-performance computing facilities, it has already been successfully applied to predict nuclear masses, global patterns of radioactive decay like $β$ or $γ$ decay, and several aspects of the nuclear fission process such as, e.g., spontaneous fission half-lives. Yet, predictive simulations of nuclear spectroscopy or of nuclear fission, or the quantification of theoretical uncertainties and their propagation to applications, would require several orders of magnitude more calculations than currently possible. However, most of this computational effort would be spent into generating a suitable basis of DFT wavefunctions. Such a task could potentially be considerably accelerated by borrowing tools from the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we review different approaches to applying supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to nuclear DFT.
title Building Surrogate Models of Nuclear Density Functional Theory with Gaussian Processesand Autoencoders
topic Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02467