  Recently, a method was developed for implementing arbitrary short-range
nucleon-nucleon correlations in Monte Carlo sampled nuclei (as well as
deformations of the 1-body nuclear density). We use this method to implement
realistic 2-body correlations in a sample of nuclei for use in simulations of
relativistic heavy-ion collisions and we quantify the statistical benefits.
These results demonstrate that the method can be used to easily implement an
arbitrary correlation function, and systematically study the effects of
correlations using significantly less resources than is necessary with
traditional methods.
