Joseph Carlson

Joseph Carlson is an American nuclear theoretical and astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Carlson graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 (master's degree 1979). There he worked with John Kogut and Vijay Pandharipande . He then worked at the Courant Institute from 1983 to 1986 and from 1986 as an Oppenheimer Fellow at the LANL, where he became a permanent member of the theory department in 1989, he became group leader in theoretical nuclear physics in 2005 and in nuclear, particle and astrophysics and cosmology in 2008.

He deals with the nuclear physical many-particle problem with light nuclei (and few-particle problem such as helium 3, 4, the deuteron, tritium and alpha particles) using quantum Monte Carlo methods (such as Green's Function MC) and realistic nuclear forces, violation of fundamental symmetries like parity violation in nuclear physics, dense nuclear matter and neutron matter in neutron stars, superfluidity and pairing in nuclear physics and solid state physics (superfluids), and neutrinos in accelerator experiments and in astrophysics ( supernovae ).

In 2017 he received the Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics for his pioneering work in the development of quantum Monte Carlo techniques for solving key problems in the theory of nuclear structure, systems of atoms at low temperatures, and the theory of very dense matter with application on neutron stars (laudation). In 2001 he received the LANL Fellows Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000) and the LANL (2004).

Fonts (selection)

• with Pandharipande: A Study of Three Nucleon Interactions in 3 and 4 Body Nuclei, Nucl. Phys. A, Volume 371, 1981, p. 301
• with Robert B. Wiringa , VR Pandharipande: Three Nucleon Interaction in 3-, 4-, and ∞-Body Systems, Nucl. Phys. A, Volume 401, 1983, p. 59.
• with J. Kogut, VR Pandharipande: Quark Model for Baryons Based on Quantum Chromodynamics, Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 27, 1983, p. 233.
• with Kogut, Pandharipande: Hadron Spectroscopy in a Flux Tube Quark Model, Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 28, 1983, p. 2807.
• with Wiringa: Variational MC Techniques in Nuclear Physics, in: Langanke, Maruhn, Koonin (Ed.) Computational Nuclear Physics, Vol. 1, Springer 1990
• with Pudliner, Pandharipande, Pieper, Wiringa: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, p. 4396 ${\displaystyle A\leq 6}$
• with Shiwei Zhang, JE Gubernatis: Pairing Correlations in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 78, 1997, p. 4486
• with BS Pudliner, Pandharipande, Steven C. Pieper , Wiringa: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei with , Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 56, 1997, p. 1720 ${\displaystyle A\leq 7}$
• with R. Schiavilla: Structure and Dynamics of Few-Nucleon Systems, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 70, 1998, p. 743
• with Wiringa, Pieper, Pandharipande: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of A = 8 nuclei, Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 62, 2000, p. 014001
• with H. Kamada, W. Gloeckle, Pieper, Wiringa a. a .: Benchmark test calculation of a four-nucleon bound state, Phys. Rev. C, Volume 64, 2001, p. 044001
• with Pieper, Pandharipande, Wiringa: Realistic models of pion-exchange three-nucleon interactions, Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 63, 2001, p. 014001
• with J. Morales, Pandharipande, DG Ravenhall: Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Neutron Matter, Phys. Rev. C, Volume 68, 2003, p. 025802
• with S.-Y. Chang, VR Pandharipande, Kevin E. Schmidt: Superfluid Fermi gases with large scattering length, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 91, 2003, p. 050401
• with R. Schiavilla, Wiringa, SC Pieper: Tensor Forces and the Ground-State Structure of Nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 98, 2007, p. 132501

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For pioneering the development of quantum Monte Carlo techniques to solve key problems in nuclear structure physics, cold atom physics, and dense matter theory of relevance to neutron stars , laudation