Effects of particle-number conservation on heat capacity of nuclei

Details Effects of particle-number conservation on heat capacity of nuclei Effects of particle-number conservation on heat capacity of nuclei

2005-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0503066v2

Phys.Rev. C72 (2005) 044303

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

RevTeX4, 12 pages including 5 figures (1 color figure), to be published in PRC

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.72.044303

By applying the particle-number projection to the finite-temperature BCS theory, the $S$-shaped heat capacity, which has recently been claimed to be a fingerprint of the superfluid-to-normal phase transition in nuclei, is reexamined. It is found that the particle-number (or number-parity) projection gives $S$-shapes in the heat capacity of nuclei which look qualitatively similar to the observed ones. These $S$-shapes are accounted for as effects of the particle-number conservation on the quasiparticle excitations, and occur even when we keep the superfluidity at all temperatures by assuming a constant gap in the BCS theory. The present study illustrates significance of the conservation laws in studying phase transitions of finite systems.

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