Physical Review Letters

Optimum pair basis in the nuclear shell model

Hsi-Tseng Chen, D.H. Feng, Cheng-Li Wu

Published Jul 20, 1992• 15 citations

Abstract

An unusual optimum pair basis exists in the nuclear shell-model wave function for an even system of like particles. This prompts the proposal of a generalized pair mean-field method, in which the desired goal of avoiding the dimensional difficulty in the traditional shell-model approaches may be possible.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.69.418

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