CLVisc Agent for autonomous relativistic hydrodynamics studies
Abstract We enable large language model (LLM) agents to autonomously perform end-to-end hydrodynamic simulations of the quark–gluon plasma evolution and calculation of final hadron spectra in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We design a meta skill that allows an agent to explore a project’s source code, craft a specialized skill, and iteratively refine it. Applying this meta skill to the (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic code CLVisc, the agent builds a CLVisc skill encoding its operational knowledge and then independently executes full scientific workflows: designing parameter scans, running simulations, comparing ensemble results, and producing publication-ready figures. Crucially, the agent draws on literature-informed heavy-ion physics to select physically meaningful observables and interpret outcomes without explicit instruction. We demonstrate the pipeline in two scenarios: temperature-dependent shear viscosity over entropy density $\eta/s$, and nuclear-structure effects in O+O collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.36$~TeV using four \textit{ab initio} descriptions of $^{16}$O. In both, the agent plans, executes, and analyzes autonomously, devising new initial-state observables to explain final observations and extract qualitative knowledge. The meta skill is agnostic to code versions and Monte Carlo generators, promising future multi-agent systems in high-energy nuclear physics.
Authors
- Shi Pu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6784-7447)
- Long-Gang Pang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1279-7008)
- Xin-Nian Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9734-9967)
- Qi Wang
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Central China Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Chinese Physics C
- Published
- 2026-11-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/aebd6f
- Primary Topic
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Central China Normal University
- National Key Research and Development Program of China