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We analyze the effect of pairing on particle transport in time-dependent theories based on the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) or BCS approximations. The equations of motion for the HFB density matrices are unique and the theory respects the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Scamps , D. Lacroix , G. F. Bertsch , K. Washiyama

The Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov (HFB) problem for the cutoff local energy-density functional is solved numerically by using the Gor'kov formalism with an exact treatment of the particle continuum. The contributions from the resonant and "gas"…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 S. A. Fayans , S. V. Tolokonnikov , D. Zawischa

Background: Heavy atomic nuclei are often described using the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) method. In principle, this approach takes into account Pauli effects and pairing correlations while other correlation effects are mimicked through…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-13 B. G. Carlsson , J. Toivanen , U. von Barth

We solve the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations for a spherical mean field and a pairing potential with the inverse Hamiltonian method, which we have developed for the solution of the Dirac equation. This method is based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. Tanimura , K. Hagino , P. Ring

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for solving the Hartree--Fock equation combining a multilevel correction scheme with an adaptive refinement technique to improve computational efficiency. The algorithm integrates a multilevel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Fei Xu

In this work we report on a new bootstrap method for quantum mechanical problems that closely mirrors the setup from conformal field theory (CFT). We use the equations of motion to develop an analogue of the conformal block expansion for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Yuan Xin

Background: Idealised systems are commonly used in nuclear physics and condensed matter. For instance, the construction of nuclear energy density functionals involves properties of infinite matter, while neutron drops are used to test…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-08 A. W. Bray , C. Simenel

Hartree-Fock theory has been justified as a mean-field approximation for fermionic systems. However, it suffers from some defects in predicting physical properties, making necessary a theory of quantum correlations. Recently, bosonization…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Niels Benedikter

We extensively develop an algorithm of implementing the Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations, in which the Gaussian expansion method is employed. This algorithm is advantageous in describing the energy-dependent exponential and oscillatory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Nakada

The two-basis method to solve the HFB for deformed nuclei in coordinate space is examined concerning the precision of the density tail. Small cutoff energies are shown to give rise to ripples in the tail, whose wave length corresponds to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoki Tajima

We present the finite amplitude method (FAM) for superfluid systems. A Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov code may be transformed into a code of the quasi-particle-random-phase approximation (QRPA) with simple modifications. This technique has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Paolo Avogadro , Takashi Nakatsukasa

We formulate a new Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method applicable to weakly bound deformed nuclei using the coordinate-space Green's function technique. An emphasis is put on treatment of quasiparticle states in the continuum, on which we impose…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-17 Hiroshi Oba , Masayuki Matsuo

Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov (HFB) calculations making use of a recently proposed microscopic effective pairing interaction are presented. The interaction was shown to reproduce the pairing properties provided by the realistic $AV18$ force very…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Duguet , P. Bonche

Combining several techniques, we propose an efficient and numerically reliable method to perform the quantum number projection and configuration mixing for most general mean-field states, i.e., the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) type product…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-03 Shingo Tagami , Yoshifumi R. Shimizu

A variety of phases in the inner crust of neutron stars are crucial for understanding the pulsar phenomena. However, the three-dimensional coordinate-space calculation of the phases is computationally demanding. We aim to generalize the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Chengpeng Yu , Takashi Nakatsukasa

We present the first set of results of solving the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations, which describe the self-consistent mean field theory with pairing interaction. Calculations for even-even nuclei are carried out on a two-dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Teran , V. E. Oberacker , A. S. Umar

Reliable predictions of the static and dynamic properties of a nucleus require a fully microscopic description of both ground and excited states of this complicated many-body quantum system. Predictive calculations are key to understanding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Emanuel V. Chimanski , Eun Jin In , Jutta E. Escher , Sophie Péru , Walid Younes

We discuss the implications of using an intrinsic Hamiltonian in theories without particle-number conservation, e.g., the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation, where the Hamiltonian's particle-number dependence leads to discrepancies if…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 H. Hergert , R. Roth

We describe the new version 2.00d of the code HFBTHO that solves the nuclear Skyrme Hartree-Fock (HF) or Skyrme Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov (HFB) problem by using the cylindrical transformed deformed harmonic-oscillator basis. In the new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-19 M. V. Stoitsov , N. Schunck , M. Kortelainen , N. Michel , H. Nam , E. Olsen , J. Sarich , S. Wild

We study the dynamics of many-body Fermi systems, for a class of initial data which are close to quasi-free states exhibiting a nonvanishing pairing matrix. We focus on the mean-field scaling, which for fermionic systems is naturally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Stefano Marcantoni , Marcello Porta , Julien Sabin