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{\it Ab initio} perturbation calculations of realistic effective interactions in the Hartree--Fock basis

Nuclear Theory 2019-07-16 v1

Abstract

We perform two types of {\it ab initio} perturbation calculations of effective interactions in the Hartree--Fock (HF) basis instead of the harmonic-oscillator basis: one is called the Brillouin--Wigner (BW) perturbation and another is called the Rayleigh--Schr\"odinger (RS) perturbation. It is shown that the HF basis provides good convergences. We also benchmark the perturbation calculations with the in-medium similarity renormalization group (IM-SRG) which is a nonperturbative method. In the HF basis some-type perturbation diagrams can be cancelled out, while the cancellation does not happen in the harmonic-oscillator basis. We have investigated the {\it sd} shell using the chiral N3^3LO potential softened by Vlow-kV_{\text{low-}k}. With the low-momentum N3^3LO potential, we first perform the spherical HF calculations for the 16^{16}O core of the {\it sd} shell, and the realistic effective two-body interactions for the HF {\it sd}-shell space can be derived by the perturbation calculations. The calculations give simultaneously effective single-particle energies and excitation spectra of two valence particle systems (i.e., 18^{18}O, 18^{18}F, and 18^{18}Ne in the {\it sd} shell). Convergences have been analyzed order by order. The perturbation calculations are in fairly good agreement with nonperturbative method IM-SRG. We find that the HF RS perturbation gives even better results compared with the BW perturbation. The HF realistic effective interactions derived by the perturbations can be used for further shell-model calculations.

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@article{arxiv.1806.09165,
  title  = {{\it Ab initio} perturbation calculations of realistic effective interactions in the Hartree--Fock basis},
  author = {Q. Wu and F. R. Xu and B. S. Hu and J. G. Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09165},
  year   = {2019}
}

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18 pages, 1 table, 4 figures