Systematics of strength function sum rules
Abstract
Sum rules provide useful insights into transition strength functions and are often expressed as expectation values of an operator. In this letter I demonstrate that non-energy-weighted transition sum rules have strong secular dependences on the energy of the initial state. Such non-trivial systematics have consequences: the simplification suggested by the generalized Brink-Axel hypothesis, for example, does not hold for most cases, though it weakly holds in at least some cases for electric dipole transitions. Furthermore, I show the systematics can be understood through spectral distribution theory, calculated via traces of operators and of products of operators. Seen through this lens, violation of the generalized Brink-Axel hypothesis is unsurprising: one expects sum rules to evolve with excitation energy. Furthermore, to lowest order the slope of the secular evolution can be traced to a component of the Hamiltonian being positive (repulsive) or negative (attractive).
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States); San Diego State Univ., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1556185
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1241246; OSTI ID: 1438019
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-96ER40985
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physics Letters B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physics Letters B Journal Volume: 750 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; strength functions; sum rules; Brink–Axel hypothesis; spectral distribution theory; shell model; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Johnson, Calvin W. Systematics of strength function sum rules. Netherlands: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.08.054.
Johnson, Calvin W. Systematics of strength function sum rules. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.08.054
Johnson, Calvin W. Sun .
"Systematics of strength function sum rules". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.08.054.
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title = {Systematics of strength function sum rules},
author = {Johnson, Calvin W.},
abstractNote = {Sum rules provide useful insights into transition strength functions and are often expressed as expectation values of an operator. In this letter I demonstrate that non-energy-weighted transition sum rules have strong secular dependences on the energy of the initial state. Such non-trivial systematics have consequences: the simplification suggested by the generalized Brink-Axel hypothesis, for example, does not hold for most cases, though it weakly holds in at least some cases for electric dipole transitions. Furthermore, I show the systematics can be understood through spectral distribution theory, calculated via traces of operators and of products of operators. Seen through this lens, violation of the generalized Brink-Axel hypothesis is unsurprising: one expects sum rules to evolve with excitation energy. Furthermore, to lowest order the slope of the secular evolution can be traced to a component of the Hamiltonian being positive (repulsive) or negative (attractive).},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2015.08.054},
journal = {Physics Letters B},
number = C,
volume = 750,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.08.054
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