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Physical Review C

Symmetry-restoring treatment of the pairing Hamiltonian in the quasiparticle representation

Osvaldo Civitarese, M. C. Licciardo

Published Aug 1, 1988• 20 citations
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Abstract

In analogy with a symmetry-restoring treatment of rotational invariance for deformed Hamiltonians, we discuss the case of a separable monopole pairing Hamiltonian in the quasiparticle basis. The results are compared to estimates of a conventional treatment based on the quasiparticle random phase approximation.
DOI
10.1103/physrevc.38.967

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