Greedy Emulators for Nuclear Two-Body Scattering

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Main Authors: Maldonado, J. M., Drischler, C., Furnstahl, R. J., Mlinarić, P.
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author Maldonado, J. M.
Drischler, C.
Furnstahl, R. J.
Mlinarić, P.
author_facet Maldonado, J. M.
Drischler, C.
Furnstahl, R. J.
Mlinarić, P.
contents Applications of reduced basis method emulators are increasing in low-energy nuclear physics because they enable fast and accurate sampling of high-fidelity calculations, enabling robust uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we develop, implement, and test two model-driven emulators based on (Petrov-)Galerkin projection using the prototypical test case of two-body scattering with the Minnesota potential and a more realistic local chiral potential. The high-fidelity scattering equations are solved with the matrix Numerov method, a reformulation of the popular Numerov recurrence relation for solving special second-order differential equations as a linear system of coupled equations. A novel error estimator based on reduced-space residuals is applied to an active learning approach (a greedy algorithm) to choosing training samples ("snapshots") for the emulator and contrasted with a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) approach. Both approaches allow for computationally efficient offline-online decompositions, but the greedy approach requires much fewer snapshot calculations. These developments set the groundwork for emulating scattering observables based on chiral nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions and optical models, where computational speed-ups are necessary for Bayesian uncertainty quantification. Our emulators and error estimators are widely applicable to linear systems.
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spellingShingle Greedy Emulators for Nuclear Two-Body Scattering
Maldonado, J. M.
Drischler, C.
Furnstahl, R. J.
Mlinarić, P.
Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Applications of reduced basis method emulators are increasing in low-energy nuclear physics because they enable fast and accurate sampling of high-fidelity calculations, enabling robust uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we develop, implement, and test two model-driven emulators based on (Petrov-)Galerkin projection using the prototypical test case of two-body scattering with the Minnesota potential and a more realistic local chiral potential. The high-fidelity scattering equations are solved with the matrix Numerov method, a reformulation of the popular Numerov recurrence relation for solving special second-order differential equations as a linear system of coupled equations. A novel error estimator based on reduced-space residuals is applied to an active learning approach (a greedy algorithm) to choosing training samples ("snapshots") for the emulator and contrasted with a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) approach. Both approaches allow for computationally efficient offline-online decompositions, but the greedy approach requires much fewer snapshot calculations. These developments set the groundwork for emulating scattering observables based on chiral nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions and optical models, where computational speed-ups are necessary for Bayesian uncertainty quantification. Our emulators and error estimators are widely applicable to linear systems.
title Greedy Emulators for Nuclear Two-Body Scattering
topic Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06092