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Physical Review C

Seniority mapping of single fermion operators

H. B. Geyer, Iain Morrison

Published Nov 1, 1989• 9 citations
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Abstract

We discuss the construction of ideal space seniority images of single fermion operators which proceeds via the generalized Dyson mapping and a subsequent similarity transformation. Particular attention is paid to the implications of a consistent treatment of single-particle and collective degrees of freedom. The results are compared with expressions for the mapped single fermion operators previously obtained, respectively, within the Otsuka-Arima-Iachello framework and by using the prescriptions of nuclear field theory. We point out certain inconsistencies in existing constructions of interacting-boson-fermion model operators in general and the interacting-boson-fermion model quadrupole operator in particular.

DOI
10.1103/physrevc.40.2383

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