From deformed Hartree-Fock to the nucleon-pair approximation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135705zbMATH Open1473.81257arXiv1909.08785OpenAlexW3075222644MaRDI QIDQ822341FDOQ822341

G. J. Fu, C. Johnson

Publication date: 22 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nucleon-pair approximation (NPA) can be a compact alternative to full configuration-interaction (FCI) diagonalization in nuclear shell-model spaces, but selecting good pairs is a long-standing problem. While seniority-based pairs work well for near-spherical nuclides, they do not work well for deformed nuclides with strong rotational bands. We propose an alternate approach. We show how one can write any Slater determinant for an even number of particles as a general pair condensate, from which one can project out pairs of good angular momentum. We implement this by generating unconstrained Hartree-Fock states in a shell model basis and extracting $S$, $D$, and $G$ pairs. The subsequent NPA calculations yield good agreement with FCI results using the same effective interactions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08785

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

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