Lucas Platter
Institute for Nuclear Theory
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
phone: (206) 685-3967
fax: (206) 685-9829
Research Interests
- Effective Field Theories
- Ab Initio Density Functional Theory
- Nuclear and Atomic Few- and Many-body Physics
What I basically do
In contrast to conventional
field theories as for example quantum electrodynamics, effective field
theories (EFT) abandon the goal of describing the world with a finite set
of renormalizable interactions. Instead, EFTs use a physical system's separation
of scales, to describe its dynamics to a given accuracy with a finite set
of renormalizable and nonrenormalizable interactions. In fact, one can consider
all "old-fashioned" field theories as a special case of effective theories
in which renormalizable interactions were so far sufficient to describe experimental
results.
I use such EFTs to compute properties of nuclear and atomic few- and
many-body systems.
Density Functional Theory provides one framework that might facililate
the calculation of properties of heavy nuclei starting from
microscopic interactions.
Upcoming Workshops and Conferences:
3/8-3/12 INT, Seattle: Workshop on Weakly Bound Systems