Pure Collective Precession Motion of High-Spin Torus Isomer
Abstract
We investigate the precession motion of the exotic torus configuration in high-spin excited states of Ca. For this aim, we use the three-dimensional time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method. Although the high-spin torus isomer is a unique quantum object characterized by the alignment of angular momenta of independent single-particle motions, we find that the obtained moment of inertia for rotations about an axis perpendicular to the symmetry axis is close to the rigid-body value. We also analyze the microscopic structure of the precession motion using the random-phase approximation (RPA) method for high-spin states. In the RPA calculation, the precession motion of the torus isomer is generated by coherent superposition of many one-particle-one-hole excitations across the sloping Fermi surface that strongly violates the time-reversal symmetry. By comparing results of the TDHF and the RPA calculations, we find that the precession motion obtained by the TDHF calculation is a pure collective motion well decoupled from other collective modes.
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@article{arxiv.1311.3775,
title = {Pure Collective Precession Motion of High-Spin Torus Isomer},
author = {T. Ichikawa and K. Matsuyanagi and J. A. Maruhn and N. Itagaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3775},
year = {2015}
}