26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

opbasis: automated construction of minimal operator bases for lattice QCD

27 Jul 2026, 17:10
20m
Crossland (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Crossland

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Software development and machines Software development and machines

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Nikolai Husung (CERN)

Description

Constructing minimal operator bases with prescribed transformation properties under discrete symmetries is a recurring task in lattice QCD. Examples include lattice artifacts of local operator insertions, such as the axial vector current, or the construction of interpolating fields with given quantum numbers. The Python package opbasis automates this derivation, with common lattice symmetries built in.

While originally targeted at Symanzik and related continuum EFTs with reduced lattice symmetry, the package has recently been extended to handle irreducible representations of discrete groups such as hypercubic lattice symmetry or boosted variants.

The package is available at https://github.com/nikolai-husung/opbasis.

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