Serdar Elhatisari
Associate Professor
Brief research interests: Quantum few-body and many-body systems, ab-initio nuclear structure and nuclear reaction calculations, effective field theories, lattice methods.
Research Areas : Nuclear theory
Office: 6/114
Tel: 5868
Email: serdar.elhatisari@kfupm.edu.sa
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Research Interests
Dr. Elhatisari studies quantum few- and many-body systems, focusing on ab-initio calculations of nuclear systems through advanced numerical techniques, including lattice methods and Monte Carlo simulations. His research aims to define nuclear forces at a fundamental level, employing effective field theories that bridge quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear interactions that we observe. By developing an ab-initio nuclear theory that respects QCD symmetries, Dr. Elhatisari explores properties of atomic nuclei and hypernuclei and performs nuclear reaction and scattering calculations.
Biographical Sketch:
A graduate of Dicle University (BSc. 2007), (MSc. 2009) and North Carolina State University (Ph.D. 2014). From 2014 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics at the University of Bonn. Dr. Elhatisari then joined the Department of Physics at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University as an Assistant Professor, later moving to Gaziantep Islam Science and Technology University in 2020 as an Associate Professor. From 2022 to 2024, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn as an ERC Fellow.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
1. S. Elhatisari et al., “Wave function matching for the quantum many-body problem”, Nature 630 (2024) 8015, 59-63
2. S. Shen, S. Elhatisari, T.A. Laehde, D. Lee, B. Lu, U.-G. Meissner, “Emergent geometry and duality in the carbon nucleus”, Nature Commun. 14 (2023) 1, 2777
3. B. Lu, N. Li, S. Elhatisari, D. Lee, E. Epelbaum, and U.-G. Meissner, “Essential elements for nuclear binding”, Phys. Lett. B797, 134863(2019)
4. S. Elhatisari et al., “Nuclear binding near a quantum phase transition”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 132501 (2016)
5. S. Elhatisari, D. Lee, G. Rupak, E. Epelbaum, H. Krebs, T. Laehde, T. Luu, and U.-G. Meissner, “Ab initio alpha-alpha scattering”, Nature 528, 111-114 (2015)
