Final version of C-12 + C-12 fusion paper from student Grant Close published today doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...

A nuclear theory / quantum computing job available at LANL: lanl.jobs/search/jobde...

New papers from group: • Carbon burning calculations from PhD student Grant Close, published in Physics Letters B (doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...) • Reaction rates in hot environments for neutron capture on Os-188 from PhD student Nick Lightfoot, out today on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2509.12404)

Paper ft our Phil Walker, working with (ex-Surrey) Piet van Isacker, and Bhoomika, who has lots of separate projects with different group members. This paper's on understanding nuclear structure properties of NEEC (nuclear excitation by electron capture) candidates: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...

New prepring ft our Joe Gibbs on scattering simulations on IBM quantum hardware arxiv.org/abs/2507.17832

PhD student Miriam Davies has a new paper out today in Phys Rev C, showing how spherical oxygen nuclei spontaneously break up into 4 alpha particles as they become more dilute, making a tetrahedron shape doi.org/10.1103/wrzp...

A new paper on calculating gamma ray strength functions ft Esra Yüksel appeared this week in Physical Review C: doi.org/10.1103/96g9...

New paper day! Post-Doc Nick Thompson leading some work on enhancing nuclear fusion with lasers, with supervisor Alexis DIaz-Torres, and (now ex-)postdoc Laura Moschini journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...

Variance minimization algorithm on quantum computer for nuclear structure: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...

Seccond Surrey theory preprint of the week: Matteo Vorabbi et al. on fully microscopic scattering theory arxiv.org/abs/2506.15406

New preprint day! "Hot pygmy dipole strength in nickel isotopes" ft our Esra Yüksel arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13354

New preprint from group PhD student Joe Gibbs: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02105

New paper from @pdstevenson.bsky.social and summer project student Lara Tatli on equation solving with quantum computation mpcs.sci.am/index.php/mp...

Two of our students' PhD theses released on @surreylib.bsky.social's repository today: Isaac Hobday (doi.org/10.15126/the...) and Lance Li (doi.org/10.15126/the...) - both on different aspects of quantum computing for nuclear physics. Well done both!

New preprint ft postdoc Nick and supervisor Alexis on laser-assisted nuclear fusion arxiv.org/abs/2505.15390

New paper from a MSc student Revathi Bhukya with supervisor Alexis Diaz-Torres on the dynamics of heavy ion collisions doi.org/10.1142/S021...

New paper from Natasha Timofeyuk on clusters of helium atoms iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

New paper on a shell model study of isospin-breaking ft our Chandan Sarma from his PhD studies has appeared. Congrats Chandan! doi.org/10.1016/j.nu...

Nuclear physics in Finland (blogpost) blogoftheisotopes.blogspot.com/2025/05/nucl...

New paper ft our emeritus Prof Ron Johnson - First Experimental Test of the Ratio Method doi.org/10.1016/j.nu...

Electromagnetic Dipole Transitions in Nuclei at Finite Temperature - new from Esra & colleagues from Zagreb doi.org/10.1051/epjc...

A postdoc in quantum computing for nuclear physics: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/299...

Congratulations to Isaac Hobday on his Phys Rev C paper being accepted for publication journals.aps.org/prc/accepted...

A new paper accepted in Mod Phys Lett A from an MSc project with Alexis Diaz-Torres by student Revathi Bhukya on pre-contact transfer of nucleons in heavy-ion collisions. Preprint on institutional repository available in link openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outp...

New preprint day! gamma-ray strength functions inc E1 and M1 contributions at finite temperature, ft. Esra Yüksel from Surrey in collaboration with Zagreb group arxiv.org/abs/2504.00699

New preprint day, ft. Esra Yüksel on the link between nuclear dipole polarizability and neutron stars arxiv.org/abs/2503.17143

Congratulations to Lance Li, who passed his PhD viva today! Two good papers from it already published 🥳

New paper from Paul Stevenson on nonlinear excitations doi.org/10.1051/epjc...

Our work on pear-shaped gadolinium nuclei, featuring a video explainer by Prof Paddy Regan www.surrey.ac.uk/news/direct-...

Major new review on "quantum physics of stars" ft our Alexis Diaz Torres accepted in Reviews of Modern Physics scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

Octupole (pear-shaped) vibrations in Gadolinium: A new set of papers featuring @surreynuctheory.bsky.social in Phys. Rev. Lett. and Phys. Rev. C: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...

A collaboration between Surrey experimentalists and Surrey theorists (and other people of both flavours from other places) resulted in an excellent paper on the low-lying excited states in lead-208 - a nucleus we thought had no surprises doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

New preprint day: we calculate the reaction cross sections for carbon-carbon fusion in stars arxiv.org/abs/2502.11240

PhD opportunity in the interface between quantum computing and nuclear physics with me at Surrey: www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

A new paper by Surrey PhD student Joe (also me, and @qzoeholmes.bsky.social)

The latest of Natasha Timofeyuk's papers on electromagnetic transitions in DT fusion reactions was published in Phys Rev C on Boxing Day: journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...

New preprint day! Featuring Esra Yüksel, with collaborators from Croatia, on the link between Earth-bound nuclear experiements and the properties of neutron stars arxiv.org/abs/2412.15936

Nuclear Density Functional Theory as solved by a quantum algorithm = new paper by us out today doi.org/10.1140/epjs...

New paper from Natasha Timofeyuk, where she continues to uncover the subtleties of gamma rays from the deuterium-tritium fusion reaction journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...

A new paper featuring Esra Yüksel, on how nuclei can form into clusters www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epj...

A new paper ft Jeff Tostevin on the observation and interpretation of the structure of neutron-rich exotic isotope Cr-62 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New preprint on quantum circuit compilation from our PhD student Joe Gibbs arxiv.org/abs/2409.16361

... and today a preprint, also on the D-T reaction; this time on the magnetic dipole component to the associated gamma spectrum arxiv.org/abs/2409.16782

New paper alert! From PhD student Nick Thomson, his supervisor Alexis, and collaborator (and ex-Surrey postdoc) Laura - on laser-enhanced D-T fusion journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...