Seniority in quantum many-body systems. I: Identical particles in a single shell

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.06.011MaRDI QIDQ305250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pieter Van Isacker, S. Heinze

Publication date 29 August 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4094

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsinteracting bosonsnuclear shell modelseniority

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Diophantine equations (11D99)

Abstract: A discussion of the seniority quantum number in many-body systems is presented. The analysis is carried out for bosons and fermions simultaneously but is restricted to identical particles occupying a single shell. The emphasis of the paper is on the possibility of {em partial} conservation of seniority which turns out to be a peculiar property of spin-9/2 fermions but prevalent in systems of interacting bosons of any spin. Partial conservation of seniority is at the basis of the existence of seniority isomers, frequently observed in semi-magic nuclei, and also gives rise to peculiar selection rules in one-nucleon transfer reactions.

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