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arXiv:nucl-th/0004002 · Physical Review C

Collective states in nuclei and many-body random interactions

R. Bijker, Alejandro Frank

Published Jun 1, 2000• 50 citations
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Abstract

Low-lying collective states in nuclei are investigated in the framework of the interacting boson model using an ensemble of random many-body interactions. It is shown that whenever the number of bosons is sufficiently large compared to the rank of the interactions, the spectral properties are characterized by a dominance of ${L}^{P}{=0}^{+}$ ground states and the occurrence of both vibrational and rotational band structures. This indicates that these features represent a general and robust property of the collective model space.

DOI
10.1103/physrevc.62.014303

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Low-lying collective states in nuclei are investigated in the framework of the interacting boson model using an ensemble of random many-body interactions. It is shown that whenever the number of bosons is sufficiently large compared to the rank of the interactions, the spectral properties are characterized by a dominance of LP=0+{L}^{P}{=0}^{+}LP=0+ ground states and the occurrence of both vibrational and rotational band structures. This indicates that these features represent a general and robust property of the collective model space.
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We investigate the origin of the regular features observed in numerical studies of the interacting boson model with random interactions, in particular the dominance of L=0L=0L=0 ground states and the occurrence of vibrational and rotational band structures. It is shown that all of these properties can be interpreted and explained in terms of a Hartree-Bose mean-field analysis, in which different regions of the parameter space are associated with geometric shapes. The same conclusions hold for the vibron model.
The energy systematics of medium and heavy even-even nuclei shows very regular features, such as for example the tripartite classification of nuclear structure into seniority, anharmonic vibrator and rotor regions [1,2]. Traditionally, this regular behavior has been interpreted as a consequence of particular interactions, such as an attractive pairing force in semimagic nuclei and an attractive neutron-proton quadrupole-quadrupole interaction for deformed nuclei. It came as a surprise, therefore, that recent studies of even-even nuclei in the nuclear shell model [3–5] and in the interacting boson model (IBM) [6–8] with random interactions also displayed a high degree of order. Both models showed a statistical preference for L = 0 ground states, despite the random nature of the interactions. In addition, in the shell model evidence was found for the occurrence of pairing properties [5], and in the IBM for vibrational and rotational bands [6,7]. These unexpected results have sparked a large number of investigations to try to understand their origin [9]. In this contribution, we discuss the phenomenom of emerging regular spectral features from the IBM with random interactions, and its