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Nucleus-Dependent Valence-Space Approach to Nuclear Structure
We present a nucleus-dependent valence-space approach for calculating ground and excited states of nuclei, which generalizes the shell-model in-medium similarity renormalization group to an ensemble reference with fractionally filled orbitals. Because the ensemble is used only as a reference, and no...
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Published in: | Physical review letters 2017-01, Vol.118 (3), p.032502-032502 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | We present a nucleus-dependent valence-space approach for calculating ground and excited states of nuclei, which generalizes the shell-model in-medium similarity renormalization group to an ensemble reference with fractionally filled orbitals. Because the ensemble is used only as a reference, and not to represent physical states, no symmetry restoration is required. This allows us to capture three-nucleon (3N) forces among valence nucleons with a valence-space Hamiltonian specifically targeted to each nucleus of interest. Predicted ground-state energies from carbon through nickel agree with results of other large-space ab initio methods, generally to the 1% level. In addition, we show that this new approach is required in order to obtain convergence for nuclei in the upper p and sd shells. Finally, we address the 1^{+}/3^{+} inversion problem in ^{22}Na and ^{46}V. This approach extends the reach of ab initio nuclear structure calculations to essentially all light- and medium-mass nuclei. |
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ISSN: | 0031-9007 1079-7114 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.032502 |