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Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Reply to the Comment on “A New Boson Expansion Theory Utilizing a Norm Operator”

Kimikazu Taniguchi

Published Oct 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract The comment is based on misunderstandings and, as a result, does not evaluate the norm operator method. We refute the comment. The structure of the norm operator composed of all the excitation modes determines whether the form of a practical boson expansion is a small parameter expansion. KT-3 is chimerical. It should be taken seriously that the small parameter expansions do not hold with truncating the contributions of all phonon excitation modes that are not adopted as boson excitations. The formulation using the boson expansion of the projection operator on to the boson vacuum does not allow the limitation of the phonon excitation number beforehand.

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10.1093/ptep/ptae153

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The norm operator method, which was recently proposed as a new formulation of the boson expansion theory (BET), is used to show that the subspace mapping is properly derived from the whole space mapping. This derivation requires the appropriate renormalization of the contribution of phonons that are not adopted as boson excitations in the subspace mapping. This was impossible with conventional BETs (which ignore these contributions), and is only made possible for the first time by the norm operator method, which treats these contributions appropriately. We also correct the confusion in the claims of conventional BETs. Namely, contrary to conventional claims, we show that when the phonon excitations not adopted as boson excitations make no contribution at all, the subspace mapping is obtained simply by discarding those excitations. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Park operator, which had been considered effective only in the whole space mapping, is also effective in the subspace mapping. These findings provide a clear criterion for verifying the applicability of the boson expansion theory to large-amplitude collective motions and offer a new perspective on a microscopic foundation of the interacting boson model (IBM).