Tagungsberichte: Ion Chemical Aspects in Ion Guide Systems - 224. WE-Heraeus-Seminar/Tagungsberichte: Microscopic Theories of Phase Transitions - 227. WE-Heraeus Seminar

The translationally-invariant coupled cluster method in coordinate space

We study a formulation of the translationally-invariant coupled cluster method in coordinate space. Previous calculations in configuration space showed poor convergence, a problem that the new formulation is expected to remedy. This question is investigated for a system of bosons interacting through the Wigner part of the Afnan-Tang S3 interaction, where previous results exist.

Translationally invariant treatment of pair correlations in nuclei: I. Spin and isospin dependent correlations

We study the extension of our translationally invariant treatment of few-body nuclear systems to heavier nuclei. At the same time we also introduce state-dependent correlation operators. Our techniques are tailored to those nuclei that can be dealt with in $LS$ coupling, which includes all nuclei up to the shell closure at $A=40$. We study mainly $p$-shell nuclei in this paper. A detailed comparison with other microscopic many-body approaches is made, using a variety of schematic nuclear interactions. It is shown that our methodology produces very good energies, and presumably also wave functions, for medium mass nuclei.

Jastrow-Correlated Configuration-Interaction Description of Light Nuclei

This work describes recent progress of the UMIST-VALENCIA collaboration on the ab initio study of ground states of light nuclei using realistic forces. The method presented here constructs trial variational wave functions by superimposing a central Jastrow correlation on a state-dependent translationally invariant linearly correlated state, with very promising results.

Translationally invariant treatment of pair correlations in nuclei - II. Tensor correlations

We study the extension of our translationally invariant treatment of few-body nuclear systems to include tensor forces and correlations. It is shown that a direct application of our method is not as successful for realistic V6 interactions as our previous results for V4 potentials suggested. We investigate the cause in detail for the case of $^4$He, and show that a combination of our method with that of Jastrow-correlated wave functions seems to be a lot more powerful, thereby suggesting that for mildly to strongly repulsive forces such a hybrid procedure may be an appropriate description.

Variational Cluster Methods in Coordinate Space for Small Systems: Center of Mass Corrections Made Easy

A reexamination of the center of mass problem for light systems in the context of coupled cluster theory has produced a new variational version of the method which is developed entirely in coordinate space. It involves independent cluster functions which depend only on the relative coordinates of the subclusters of the system. In applications to the 4He nucleus described via a number of phenomenological and quasirealistic microscopic Wigner potentials, the method is shown to be quantitatively rather accurate, producing in all cases almost exact results for the ground-state energies at the SUB(3) level of approximation.

Translationally invariant coupled cluster method in coordinate space for nuclei

We study a formulation of the translationally invariant coupled cluster method in coordinate space for finite nuclei. The new formulation remedies convergence problems that plagued previous calculations in configuration space. The method is applied to light nuclei using semi-realistic central interactions.

Microscopic and translationally-invariant calculations with tensor forces and tensor correlations

In this paper we discuss an approach to the ab initio study of ground states of light nuclei using realistic forces. The method constructs trial variational wavefunctions by superimposing state-dependent translationally-invariant pair correlations on a state-independent Jastrow-correlated wavefunction, with very promising results.