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Restoration of broken symmetries in Self-Consistent RPA

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is shown that the Self-Consistent RPA (SCRPA) approach allows in a very natural way to restore symmetries, spontaneously broken on the mean field level. This is achieved via the introduction of a second Lagrange multiplier which constrains the variance of the symmetry operator to zero. This important feature of SCRPA, here pointed out for the first time, is illustrated employing a simplified model of the nuclear superfluidity.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0106064,
  title  = {Restoration of broken symmetries in Self-Consistent RPA},
  author = {A. Rabhi and P. Schuck and R. Bennaceur and G. Chanfray and J. Dukelsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0106064},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. C