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Concept of a collective subspace associated with the invariance principle of the Schroedinger equation

Toshio Marumori, A. Hayashi, T. Tomoda, A. Kuriyama, Toshihide Maskawa

Published Jan 1, 1979• 1 citation
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Abstract

The aim of this series of papers is to propose a microscopic theory to go beyond the situations where collective motions are described by the random phase approximation, i.e., by small amplitude harmonic oscillations about equilibrium. The theory is thus ap­ propriate for the microscopic description of the large amplitude collective motion of soft nuclei. The essential idea is to develop a method to determine the collective subspace (or submanifold) in the many-particle Hilbert space in an optimal way, on the basis of a fundamental princi­ ple called the invariance principle of the Schrodinger equation. By using the principle with­ in the framework of the Hartree-Fock theory, it is shown that the theory can clarify the structure of the so-called phonon-bands by self-consistently deriving the collective Hamil­ tonian where the number of the physical phonon is conserved. The purpose of this paper is not to go into detailed quantitative discussion, but rather to develop the basic idea.

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A theory of large amplitude collective motion of a many-particle system is presented, which is relevant, for example, to nuclear fission. The theory is a combination of techniques used in many areas of physics and mathematics. The starting point is the application of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation to generate invariant subspaces of the Hamiltonian in the Hartree–Fock approximation. This is a generalization of the group-theoretical device of generating orbits of a group in the construction of reduced representations. It is shown how solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation can be expressed as instantaneous stationary states of a constrained static Hamiltonian. Thus contact is made with the traditional cranking models and constrained Hartree–Fock theories of large amplitude collective motion. The collective motion is quantized using the Hill–Wheeler–Griffin method of generator coordinates in a basis of generalized coherent states. One is thereby able to exploit much of the theory of harmonic oscillator coherent states, which have been so successfully used in the quantum theory of the laser. The resulting Schrödinger equation for the collective dynamics is expressed both in the Bargmann representation and in the more familiar Schrödinger representation. It is shown that solution of the Schrödinger equation in the small amplitude harmonic approximation reproduces the well-known RPA result. A pilot calculation for 28Si shows that application in large amplitude is also feasible.
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