AUTHOR=Drischler C. , Melendez J. A. , Furnstahl R. J. , Garcia A. J. , Zhang Xilin TITLE=BUQEYE guide to projection-based emulators in nuclear physics JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=10 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.1092931 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2022.1092931 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

The BUQEYE collaboration (Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification: Errors in Your effective field theory) presents a pedagogical introduction to projection-based, reduced-order emulators for applications in low-energy nuclear physics. The term emulator refers here to a fast surrogate model capable of reliably approximating high-fidelity models. As the general tools employed by these emulators are not yet well-known in the nuclear physics community, we discuss variational and Galerkin projection methods, emphasize the benefits of offline-online decompositions, and explore how these concepts lead to emulators for bound and scattering systems that enable fast and accurate calculations using many different model parameter sets. We also point to future extensions and applications of these emulators for nuclear physics, guided by the mature field of model (order) reduction. All examples discussed here and more are available as interactive, open-source Python code so that practitioners can readily adapt projection-based emulators for their own work.