Related papers: Pairing in finite systems: beyond the HFB theory
We present new formulae for the matrix elements of one-body and two-body physical operators in compact forms, which are applicable to arbitrary Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov wave functions, including those for multi-quasiparticle excitations. The…
We derive a formalism, the separation method, for the efficient and accurate calculation of two-body matrix elements for a Gaussian potential in the cylindrical harmonic-oscillator basis. This formalism is of critical importance for…
An implementation of the Hartree-Fock (HF) method capable of robust convergence for well-behaved arbitrary central potentials is presented. The Hartree-Fock equations are converted to a generalized eigenvalue problem by employing a B-spline…
We study the performance of self-consistent mean-field and beyond-mean-field approximations in shell-model valence spaces. In particular, Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov, particle-number variation after projection and projected generator coordinate…
The Relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov model for axially deformed nuclei (RHFBz) is introduced. The model is based on an effective Lagrangian with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings in the particle-hole channel, and the pairing…
We present a formulation of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations which solves the problem directly in the basis of natural orbitals. This provides a very efficient scheme which is particularly suited for large scale calculations on…
Weakly-bound deformed nuclei have been studied by the Skyrme Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approach in large coordinate-space boxes. In particular, the box-size dependence of the HFB calculations of weakly-bound deformed nuclei are…
We propose and investigate two new methods to approximate $f({\bf A}){\bf b}$ for large, sparse, Hermitian matrices ${\bf A}$. The main idea behind both methods is to first estimate the spectral density of ${\bf A}$, and then find…
We investigate pfaffian trial wave functions with singlet and triplet pair orbitals by quantum Monte Carlo methods. We present mathematical identities and the key algebraic properties necessary for efficient evaluation of pfaffians.…
While Hartree-Fock theory is well established as a fundamental approximation for interacting fermions, it has been unclear how to describe corrections to it due to many-body correlations. In this paper we start from the Hartree-Fock state…
The possible compatibility of density matrices for single-party subsystems is described by linear constraints on their respective spectra. Whenever some of those quantum marginal constraints are saturated, the total quantum state has a…
A Gaussian operator representation for the many body density matrix of fermionic systems, developed by Corney and Drummond [Phys. Rev. Lett, v93, 260401 (2004)], is used to derive approximate decoupling schemes for their dynamics. In this…
The multiconfiguration methods are widely used by quantum physicists and chemists for numerical approximation of the many electron Schr\"odinger equation. Recently, first mathematically rigorous results were obtained on the time-dependent…
Although many programs have been published for fully numerical Hartree--Fock (HF) or density functional (DF) calculations on atoms, we are not aware of any that support hybrid DFs, which are popular within the quantum chemistry community…
We present a density matrix approach for computing global solutions of Hartree-Fock theory, based on semidefinite programming (SDP), that gives upper and lower bounds on the Hartree-Fock energy of quantum systems. Equality of the upper- and…
A recently introduced scheme for the renormalization of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations in the case of zero-range pairing interaction is extended to the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model. A density-dependent strength parameter of…
The theory of Self-Consistent Green's Function (SCGF) is reformulated in an explicit Nambu-covariant fashion for applications to many-body systems at non-zero temperature in symmetry-broken phases. This is achieved by extending the…
The Thermal Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation with reprojection to good quantum numbers is analyzed in a canonical ensemble. Simple recipes are given for the evaluation of traces, gradients and expectation values in the canonical…
Background: The relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory has recently been developed and it provides a unified and highly predictive description of both nuclear mean field and pairing correlations. Ground state properties of…
The modified HFB (MHFB) theory at finite temperature is derived, which conserves the unitarity relation of the particle-density matrix. This is achieved by constructing a modified quasiparticle-density matrix, where the fluctuation of the…