Introduction
Developments and applications
of coupled-cluster theory took different routes in chemistry
and nuclear physics. In quantum chemistry,
coupled-cluster developments
and applications have proven to be extremely useful, see for example the review by
Barrett and Musial as well as the recent
textbook by
Shavitt and Barrett. Many previous applications to nuclear physics struggled with the repulsive character of the nuclear forces and limited basis sets used in the computations. Most of these problems have been overcome during the last decade and coupled-cluster
theory is one of the computational methods of preference for doing nuclear physics, with applications ranging from light nuclei to medium-heavy nuclei,
see for example the recent review by
Hagen, Papenbrock, Hjorth-Jensen and Dean.