Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2002

Abstract

Deformation is fundamental to understanding nuclear structure. We compare two ways to efficiently realize deformation for many-fermion wave functions, the leading SU(3) irreducible representation and the angularmomentum-projected Hartree-Fock state. In the absence of single-particle spin-orbit splitting the two are nearly identical. With realistic forces, however, the difference between the two is nontrivial, with the angular-momentum-projected Hartree-Fock state better approximating an "exact" wave function calculated in the fully interacting shell model. The difference is driven almost entirely by the single-particle spin-orbit splitting.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

First Page

343121

Last Page

343125

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