Sebastian König
Bio
Dr. König (Koenig) received his PhD in 2013 from Bonn University, Germany. He then moved to the US as a postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University. In 2016 he went back to Germany and spent three years as Herzberg Fellow at TU Darmstadt before joining the NC State Physics Department as FRIB-TA bridge faculty in 2020
Area(s) of Expertise
Dr König's research covers a range of topics in theoretical low-energy nuclear physics, centered around effective field theory applied to few-nucleon systems, finite-volume techniques relevant for lattice field theory simulations, and other aspects of ab initio calculations. This work focuses in particular on aspects which are universal in the sense that they apply to very different systems—not limited to nuclear physics—at the same time. Dr König is furthermore interested in efficient numerical applications and topics in computer science. Simulating quantum systems on computers at various scales is an important aspect of his work.
Publications
- Efficient few-body calculations in finite volume , 13TH INTERNATIONAL SPRING SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR PHYSICS PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES IN NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AFTER 70 YEARS OF SHELL MODEL, ISS 2022 (2023)
- Eigenvector continuation for emulating and extrapolating two-body resonances , Physical Review C (2023)
- Three-body resonances in pionless effective field theory , PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2022)
- Volume extrapolation via eigenvector continuation , PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2022)
- Role of Chiral Two-Body Currents in Li-6 Magnetic Properties in Light of a New Precision Measurement with the Relative Self-Absorption Technique , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2021)
- Eigenvector continuation as an efficient and accurate emulator for uncertainty quantification , Physics Letters B (2020)
- Energies and radii of light nuclei around unitarity , EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A (2020)
- Few-Body Bound States and Resonances in Finite Volume , FEW-BODY SYSTEMS (2020)
- Improved many-body expansions from eigenvector continuation , PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2020)
- Nuclear effective field theory: Status and perspectives , REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS (2020)
Groups
Honors and Awards
- Few-Body Systems Award for Young Researchers (2019)
- Dissertation Prize of the German Physics Society (2015)
- Dr. Klaus Erkelenz Prize (2013)