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Title: Optimal plane-wave Hartree-Fock states for many-fermion systems

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev., C; (United States)

The possibility of taking plane-wave orbitals of a Hartree-Fock determinant to fill k space differently from the ''normal'' Fermi sphere is investigated for several two-body potentials including the ''homework'' v/sub 0/, v/sub 1/, and v/sub 2/ - aken from the Reid nucleon-nucleon force - as well as a sum-of-Gaussians potential chosen to fit the deuteron binding and size. A random-search and random-walk numerical algorithm shows that, provided the potential strengths are made large enough, a single-shell ''abnormal'' occupation is always found to be lower in energy than the normal one if sufficient attraction is present in the two-body interaction. No abnormal occupation is possible for, among other pair interactions, the electron or charged-boson fluid, the repulsive square barrier, and a common form of the He-He interaction.

Research Organization:
Instituto de Fisica, Universidad de Mexico, Mexico 20, D. F.
OSTI ID:
5726675
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev., C; (United States), Vol. 20:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English