Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2011-05-30
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
proceeding of the conference "Many body correlations from dilute to dense Nuclear systems", Paris, February 2011
Scientific paper
The Multi-Reference Energy Density Functional (MR-EDF) approach (also called configuration mixing or Generator Coordinate Method), that is commonly used to treat pairing in finite nuclei and project onto particle number, is re-analyzed. It is shown that, under certain conditions, the MR-EDF energy can be interpreted as a functional of the one-body density matrix of the projected state with good particle number. Based on this observation, we propose a new approach, called Symmetry-Conserving EDF (SC-EDF), where the breaking and restoration of symmetry are accounted for simultaneously. We show, that such an approach is free from pathologies recently observed in MR-EDF and can be used with a large flexibility on the density dependence of the functional.
Bender Michael
Hupin Guillaume
Lacroix Denis
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