Effective interactions have been used to compute the pairing gap for nuclear and neutron matter in several schemes. In this work we analyze the impact of phase-shift equivalent interactions within the BCS theory on the
1S0-channel pairing gap for a translational invariant many-fermion system such as nuclear and neutron matter. We solve the BCS pairing gap equation on a finite momentum grid for a toy model separable Gaussian potential in the
1S0-channel explicitly evolved through the Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) transformation and show that in the on-shell and continuum limits the pairing gap vanishes. For finite size systems the momentum is quantized and the on-shell limit is realized for SRG cutoffs comparable to the momentum resolution. In this case the pairing gap can be computed directly from the scattering phase-shifts by an energy-shift formula. While the momentum grid is usually used as an auxiliary way of solving the BCS pairing gap equation, we show that it actually encodes some relevant physical information, suggesting that in fact finite grids may represent the finite size of the system.
The authors have previously formulated a general translationally invariant version of the coupled cluster theory. The authors investigate the linearized approximation referred to as the second-order translationally invariant cluster method. In particular, they algebraically formulate and numerically solve this method at the optimal Euler-Lagrange level for finite bosonic systems. The method proves to be highly superior to the standard configuration-interaction calculations of the shell-model type, and confirms the validity of the Gaussian geminal expansion of the two-body cluster C 2 .