On the Center-of-Mass Free Density Matrix
Kazuhiro Yabana
Two methods to calculate the density matrix of one• body or more•than•one•body which does not include the spurious center•of•mass excitation are presented.One is the method to calculate the density matrix for the many-body wave function of general type and the other is applicable to the case in which the center~of-mass motion separates from the internal motion and is in the (Os) orbit of harmonic oscillator.The applications of these methods are illustrated for some many-body wave function.§ 1. IntroductionTo represent the characteristic features of the many-body wave function of nuclei, the density matrices are often utilized.Experimentally, for example, in the electron scattering from nuclei, the nuclear structure is analyzed by the terms of the nuclear density and the current density, which are the special forms of the one-body density matrix.Theoretically, the one-body density matrix plays a crucial role in the current nuclear theories based on the mean field approximation, such as Hartree-Fock theory.And, in recent nuclear studies, interest is taken in not only the nuclear density which is the diagonal part of the one-body density matrix, but the non-local part of it.The non-local part of the one-body density matrix is often visualized with the use of the Wigner transform of it. 1),2)Especially, in the time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory, the Wigner transform of the one-body density matrix is interpreted as the classical distribution function and obeys the Vlasov equation approximately.3)These works clarify the importance of the non-local part of the one-body density matrix in the dynamics.Usually the spatial coordinate of the density matrix is measured from some spatially fixed origin.Due to the finiteness of the nuclear system, however, we need to measure the coordinate from the center of mass of the system; otherwise the spurious center-of-mass motion affects the density matrix.This effect of center-of-mass motion becomes important for light systems.For the diagonal part of the one-body transition density matrix, the effect of center-of-mass motion was discussed by Tassie and Barker for the case of harmonic oscillator shell mode1. 4) And for the diagonal part of the one-body density matrix in momentum representation, that is the nuclear momentum distribution, the effect of spurious center-of-mass motion has been discussed. 5) For the general non-local density matrix, however, there seems not to be presented any method to treat the spurious center-of-mass effect.In this paper, we present two methods to get the center-of-mass free density matrix.One is the method, applicable to the general wave function, which is especially suitable for the case where the wave function is a (linear superposition of) Slater determinant.The other is applicable to the cases in which the center-of-mass motion separates from other internal motions and is in the (Os) orbit of harmonic oscillator.For such wave functions, the latter method is more easy to calculate though the former method is also applicable.
Progress of Theoretical Physics•Aug 1, 1986•4 citations