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Long Range Tensor Correlations in Charge and Parity Projected Fermionic Molecular Dynamics

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Within the framework of Fermionic Molecular Dynamics a method is developed to better account for long range tensor correlations in nuclei when working with a single Slater determinant. Single-particle states with mixed isospin and broken parity build up an intrinsic Slater determinant which is then charge and parity projected. By minimizing the energy of this many-body state with respect to the parameters of the single-particle states and projecting afterwards on angular momentum ground state energies are obtained that are systematically lower than corresponding Hartree-Fock results. The realistic Argonne V18 potential is used and short range correlations are treated with the Unitary Correlation Operator Method. Comparison with exact few-body calculations shows that in 4^4He about one fifth of the correlation energy due to long-range correlations are accounted for. These correlations which extend over the whole nucleus are visualized with the isospin and spin-isospin density of the intrinsic state. The divergence of the spin-isospin density, the source for pion fields, turns out to be of dipole nature.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3687,
  title  = {Long Range Tensor Correlations in Charge and Parity Projected Fermionic Molecular Dynamics},
  author = {Sonia Bacca and Hans Feldmeier and Thomas Neff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3687},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures

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