A schematic model for monopole and quadrupole pairing in nuclei

A schematic Hamiltonian with a pairing interaction plus a quadrupole-quadrupole interaction between nucleons is presented. It is shown that all the states of the fermion system can be classified according to the number of nucleons u not coupled to coherent monopole or quadrupole pairs. The states with u = 0 are shown to have a one-to-one correspondence to the states of the interacting boson model. The spectra for these states are derived analytically for various limits of the pairing strength and the quadrupole strength. Analytical forms for the matrix elements of operators are derived for these limits. The operators in fermion space are mapped onto boson operators. The matrix elements of operators in the fermion space are shown to be equal to matrix elements of the boson operators multiplied by analytical Pauli factors which are state dependent. The two-nucleon transfer strength is calculated in two limits and is compared to experimental values.     

Microscopic calculation of IBM parameters by using intrinsic states

The overlaps between intrinsic fermionic and bosonic wave functions are required to be the same. This provides relations between fermion and boson variables. These relations are used in conjunction with an OAI procedure for intrinsic states to map the shell-model space operators onto their equivalent boson space operators. As an example, a QQ interaction is mapped.     

Boson description of collective states: (II). Description of odd vibrational nuclei

By addition of the so-called ideal quasiparticle to the boson space one can represent the odd fermion states in that product space. In such a way one finds various representations of the fermion operators in terms of the boson operators and ideal quasiparticles. From these boson expansions of the fermion operators a finite one is selected by considering non-unitary transformations. Thus, the direct generalization, of the Dyson representation for even systems is given for the case of odd systems. The Hamiltonian can be divided into three parts: the boson term which describes the vibrational motion of the even core, the unperturbed motion of the quasiparticle, and the interaction between the quasiparticle and the bosons. This interaction consists of two terms, one of which agrees with the term used by Kisslinger and Sorensen ²), which is usually called the dynamical interaction, and the additional term is due to the antisymmetrization between the extra particle and the even core. The latter term can be identified as kinematical interaction which is responsible for the anomalous coupling states. For example, it is demonstrated that this term produces qualitatively the same splitting of the one-phonon multiplet as was obtained by Kuriyama et al. ³) for the j-shell. Furthermore, it is shown for the more complicated case of ¹¹⁷Sn that the effect of this additional interaction between phonons and quasiparticle is important when many shells to the states in the odd nucleus are taken into account.     

Fermions and bosons in a two-dimensional world

We derive the formal equivalence of a free massless two-dimensional theory and a free massless two-dimensional boson theory constructed from the bilinear products of the self-same fermion theory. The sense of this equivalence is investigated. Using a box normalization, it is found that the fermion states are Glauber coherent states of bosons, where the boson vacuum is the ground state of the charge sector corresponding to the given fermion state. The massless boson is the Goldstone boson and the degenerate vacua are the ground states of the various charge sectors. A complete operator identity between fermion and boson operators can be obtained, but to do this an additional boson operator must be introduced which cannot be defined in terms of bilinear products of the fermion operators. Doing this makes the charge spectrum continuous.     

pn-QRPA and higher-order approximations

The proton-neutron Quasi-particle Random Phase Approximation (pn-QRPA) is reviewed and higher-order approximations discussed with reference to the beta decay physics. The approach is fully developed in a boson formalism. Working within a schematic model, we first illustrate a fermion-boson mapping procedure and apply it to construct boson images of the fermion Hamiltonian at different levels of approximation. The quality of these images is tested through a comparison between approximate and exact spectra. Standard QRPA equations are derived in correspondence with the quasi-boson limit of the boson Hamiltonian. The use of higher-order Hamiltonians is seen to improve considerably the stability of the approximate solutions. The mapping procedure is also applied to Fermi beta operators and transition amplitudes are discussed. The range of applicability of the QRPA formalism is examined. Presented at Workshop on calculation of double-beta-decay matrix elements (MEDEX’97), Prague, May 27–31, 1997.     

Shape transitions in even Mo and Sm isotopes: Study in a new microscopic interacting boson model scheme

A simple dynamic procedure, based on the deformed Hartree-Fock solution of a nucleus, is presented to construct the IBM operators in microscopic basis. The parameters of these operators are evaluated by establishing a Marumori mapping from the truncated shell model space onto the boson space. The transitions from spherical to axial-rotor shape observed in the low-lying levels ofeven ^96–108Mo and^146–154Sm isotopes are reproduced qualitatively by applying this procedure with a fixed set of fermion input parameters to each chain. Variation of a few parameters in fermion space leads to quantitative agreement.     

Fermions and associated bosons of one-dimensional model

The representation of the canonical commutation relations involved in the construction of boson operators from fermion operators according to the recipe of the neutrino theory of light is studied. Starting from a cyclic Fock-representation for the massless fermions the boson operators are reduced by the spectral projectors of two charge-operators and form an infinite direct sum of cyclic Fock-representations. Kronig's identity expressing the fermion kinetic energy in terms of the boson kinetic energy and the squares of the charge operators is verified as an identity for strictly selfadjoint operators. It provides the key to the solubility ofLuttinger's model. A simple sufficient condition is given for the unitary equivalence of the representations linked by the canonical transformation which diagonalizes the total Hamiltonian.Work supported by the National Science Foundation.     

On the boson mapping of fermion collective pairs

We study the problem of the mapping of fermion collective pairs onto particle-particle bosons and of different fermion operators (hamiltonian, one- and two-particle transfer operators) onto corresponding boson ones and we test the consequences of the truncation to lowest orders of these boson operators. We find that, although the lowest-order terms in the expansion of the operators in boson space lead to matrix elements between boson states which display the qualitative behaviour of the corresponding ones between fermion states, higher-order terms are required to get a quantitative agreement when a large number of particles are involved, as a direct consequence of the increased role of the Pauli principle.     

Deformed fermion realization of sp(4) and its reductions

A specific q-deformation of the compact symplectic sp(4) algebra, one that is suitable for nuclear physics applications, is realized in terms of q-deformed fermion creation and annihilation operators of the shell-model. The generators of the algebra close on four distinct realizations of the u _q (2) subalgebra. These reductions, which correspond to different pairing interactions, yield a complete classification of the basis states. An analysis of the role of the q-deformation is based on a comparison of the results for energies of the lowest isovector-paired 0⁺ states in the deformed and non-deformed cases.     

Strong coupled and doubly decoupled bands in the SU BF (3) ⊗ U F (2j + 1) limit of interacting boson — fermion — fermion model

The quantum numbers labelling the basis states and the corresponding strong coupled wavefunctions in the SU ^BF (3) ? U ^F (2j + 1) limit of interacting boson — fermion — fermion model are given. This dynamical symmetry limit is appropriate for heavy deformed odd — odd nuclei for configurations with one of the odd particle (proton or neutron) occupying all the natural parity orbits in the corresponding valence shell and the other particle occupying a single j — orbit. A boson — fermion — fermion interaction that can change the positions of the strong coupled bands without admixing and generate degenerate quadruplet of bands is constructed. A simple spin — spin and spin — orbital interaction that splits and changes the positions of the members of the quadruplet of bands is given. Adding a coriolis term to the hamiltonian generates doubly decoupled bands such as those seen in ¹⁷⁶Re nucleus.     

Painlevé IV coherent states

A simple way to find solutions of the Painlevé IV equation is by identifying Hamiltonian systems with third-order differential ladder operators. Some of these systems can be obtained by applying supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSY QM) to the harmonic oscillator. In this work, we will construct families of coherent states for such subset of SUSY partner Hamiltonians which are connected with the Painlevé IV equation. First, these coherent states are built up as eigenstates of the annihilation operator, then as displaced versions of the extremal states, both involving the related third-order ladder operators, and finally as extremal states which are also displaced but now using the so called linearized ladder operators. To each SUSY partner Hamiltonian corresponds two families of coherent states: one inside the infinite subspace associated with the isospectral part of the spectrum and another one in the finite subspace generated by the states created through the SUSY technique.     

Boson expansions and quantization of time-dependent self-consistent fields (I). Particle-hole excitations

Two concrete methods are presented for quantizing the time-dependent Hartree equations in terms of boson operators. The first is the well-known infinite boson expansion analogous to the Holstein-Primakoff representation of angular momentum operators. The second, a new development, consists of finite boson quadratic forms, and is analogous to the Schwinger representation of angular momenta. In each case, a physical boson subspace can easily be constructed within which the full fermion dynamics is exactly duplicated. It therefore follows that quantization of the time-dependent Hartree equations, including all degrees of freedom, retrieves the exact many-body problem. The discussion in this paper is limited to particle-hole excitations of an N-particle system. A generalization to one-nucleon transfer processes on the N-particle system is also given in terms of ideal odd nucleons, but this brings in infinite expansions.     

Shell model description of interacting bosons

The interacting boson model, describing collective states of even-even nuclei, is introduced as a drastic truncation of large scale shell model calculations. The shell model hamiltonian can be diagonalized by using a correspondence, or mapping, of the nucleon states in the truncated space into states obtained by coupling proton and neutron s- and d-bosons. The equivalent boson hamiltonian in a simple case is obtained and diagonalized. Eigenstates with definite proton-neutron symmetry (good F-spin) emerge for certain values of proton and neutron numbers. In general the situation is more complex but the results obtained follow closely the experimental data.     

Do we understand IBM parameters?

A microscopic calculation of interacting-boson model (IBM) parameters is performed for Xe isotopes within the framework of the broken-pair model. We employ a shell-model hamiltonian which reproduces the spectra of near-magic and semi-magic nuclei. As a first approximation we adopt the idea of Otsuka, Arima and Iachello, that IBM states represent fermion states built from collective S- and D-pairs — the SD space. We show that at least two effects are needed to explain the empirical values of IBM parameters. Firstly there is a reduction in collectivity of S- and D-pairs in states with several broken pairs, due to the Pauli-blocking effect of the latter. Secondly the shell-model hamiltonian mixes the SD space with other fermion states which are not explicitly represented in the IBM. Among the latter, states with a collective G-pair (J = 4) are the most important, but they contribute less than half of the total renormalization of the parameters. The calculated IBM parameters χ of the E2 transition operators exhibit similar trends to those which occur in the IBM hamiltonian.We explain the IBM Majorana force as a renormalization effect on states with even J; not as a repulsion in states with odd J. The latter emerge as rather pure states which mix little with the non-collective fermion space. This indicates that they may be experimentally observable.With our calculated parameters the IBM spectra and E2 transitions are of comparable quality to those obtained in IBM fits of the data.     

An application of boson second quantization techniques to the calculation of electron scattering form factors

It is suggested that boson second quantization, in terms of harmonic oscillator bosons, may be much more useful than its fermion counterpart for shell-model calculations in an LS coupled basis. The bosons carry the fundamental representation of SU(3). The combined set of boson creation and annihilation operators also carry the fundamental representation of Sp(3, R). Boson second quantization therefore provides a mechanism for expressing operators in terms of SU(3) and Sp(3, R) irreducible tensors. This is of major importance for shell-model calculations in an SU(3) basis and for the development of the symplectic shell model. Applications are made to the calculation of electron scattering form factors and it is shown how major simplifications arise when the space is restricted to a single major shell. For example, longitudinal form factors for 0 → 2 transitions in the sd-shell are shown to depend on just three parameters while the corresponding transverse form factors are uniquely determined up to an overall multiplicative constant. Further simplifications result on restriction to a single SU(3) irreducible representation.     

On Bogoliubov transformations. II. The general case

A rigorous treatment of Bogoliubov transformations is presented along the same lines as in a previous paper, which dealt with a special case. As in the previous paper a formulation in terms of unitary resp. pseudo-unitary operators is used, corresponding to the CAR resp. the CCR. This leads to simple proofs of well-known necessary and sufficient conditions for the transformation to be unitarily implementable in Fock space. The normal form of the implementing operator $\text{U}$ is studied. It is proved that on the subspace of algebraic tensors $\text{U}$ equals a strongly convergent infinite series of Wick monomials that sums up to a simple exponential expression. A connection between the fermion and boson transformations studied in the previous paper is established. The analogous correspondence in the general case only holds true if the (pseudo) unitary operator equals its own inverse.     

Low-lying (K π = 0+) states of gadolinium isotopes

The sd-interacting boson approximation (sd-IBA) and the df-interacting boson approximation (df-IBA) can be related to each other and the states of the interacting boson approximation model can be identified with the fully symmetric states in the sdf interacting boson approximation model. A systematic study of the sdf-IBA model showed that the constructed Hamiltonian can successfully describe the strong octupole correlations in the deformed nuclei. We showed that the interacting boson approximation may account for many of these K ^π ?=?0⁺ states. It was found that the calculated energy spectra of the gadolinium isotopes agree quite well with the experimental data. The observed B(E2) values were also calculated and compared with the experimental data.     

Application of the dyson boson mapping to the analysis of the phase transition at N = 88–90

The Dyson boson mapping theory is applied to the analysis of the phase transition from vibrational to rotational spectra in the Sm isotopes. The original quasiparticle space consisting of multi-quadrupole collective-phonon states on the spherical shell-model bases is transformed into a boson space by the Dyson mapping. In this boson space, numerical analysis is carried out for ^146–154Sm. In addition, the boson space is extended to contain non-collective phonon degrees of freedom and in this extended space the coupling effect between collective and non-collective phonons is precisely estimated. The numerical results show that the contribution from the noncollective phonon degrees of freedom cannot be neglected in the transitional region.     

A new quantum number in the description of 8Be

We introduce a schematic Hamiltonian to describe ⁸Be. A new quantum number emerges from a shell-model and configuration interaction calculation for this nucleus. The theoretical introduction of this quantum number is accounted for by a new classification of states in terms of the unitary irreducible representations of the non-compact group Sp(2, R). The classification of states is shown to be physically relevant.