Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2007-11-09
Phys.Rev.C76:064306,2007
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.064306
By applying particle-number projection to the static-path approximation (SPA), the heat capacity and the breakdown of pairing correlations are investigated in the thermally excited, superfluid systems 172Yb, 94Mo, and 56Fe. For the heavy nucleus 172Yb, the heat capacities in both the SPA and the number-projected SPA (NPSPA) exhibit an S shape; the difference between the SPA and NPSPA heat-capacity curves is not very large and the particle-number projection thereby enhances the S shape already seen in the SPA. The temperature at which the S-shape of heat capacity curve occurs parallels the temperature of the breakdown of pairing correlations as indicated by the effective pairing gap. However, for the comparatively lighter nuclei 94Mo and 56Fe, the SPA does not produce an S-shaped heat capacity on its own; only after particle-number projection the S shape appears in the heat-capacity curve. For 94Mo, we compare the NPSPA result with thermal odd-even mass differences, which are regarded as a direct measure of the pairing gap.
Kaneko Kazuhisa
Schiller Avraham
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