N. U L L A H and K. K. G U P T A Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay-5, India R e c e i v e d 25 J u n e 1971
It is argued that the residual interaction being relatively of long range, should produce Random Phase Approximation (RPA) type of correlations in the Hartree-Fock (HF) intrinsic state. A model is described to take these correlations inti account in the intrinsic state. A comparison of the projected spectra from this state with the exact shell model diagonalization for a model problem bears out this point. An a p p l i c a tion of the model in distinguishing two almost degenerate HF solutions for the 2 s - l d shell n u c l e i is m e n tioned.
T h e concept of an i n t r i n s i c s t a t e [1], f r o m which the l o w - l y i n g l e v e l s of a n u c l e u s a r e o b t a i n e d by a n g u l a r m o m e n t u m p r o j e c t i o n , has p r o v e d q u i t e f r u i t f u l in n u c l e a r s t r u c t u r e c a l c u lations. T h i s i n t r i n s i c s t a t e is obtained by p e r f o r m i n g a d e f o r m e d H a r t r e e - F o c k (HF) c a l c u l a tion [2]. In many of t h e s e c a l c u l a t i o n s it has b e e n o b s e r v e d that this p r o c e d u r e does not g i v e fully s a t i s f a c t o r y r e s u l t s f o r the e x c i t e d s t a t e s . T h i s u n s a t i s f a c t o r y s t a t e of a f f a i r a r i s e s due to t he fact that no c o r r e l a t i o n s a r e i n c l u d e d in t h e s e i n t r i n s i c H a r t r e e - F o c k w a v e functions. T h e p u r p o s e of the p r e s e n t note is to s e e what kind of c o r r e l a t i o n s one has to include in t h e s e i n t r i n s i c wave functions and then d e s c r i b e a m o d e l which t a k e s them into account. By c o m p a r i n g the p r o j e c t e d e n e r g i e s f r o m t h e c o r r e l a t e d i n t r i n s i c s t a t e of our m o d e l with the e x a c t s h e l l m o d e l d i a g o n a l i z a t i o n we d e m o n s t r a t e that i n c l u s i o n of such c o r r e l a t i o n s indeed l e a d s to e x c e l l e n t a g r e e m e n t with the e x a c t e n e r g i e s . T h e e f f e c t i v e i n t e r a c t i o n which is u s e d in n u c l e a r s t r u c t u r e c a l c u l a t i o n s i s the one o b t a i n e d f r o m a r e a l i s t i c i n t e r a c t i o n , l i k e the H a m a d a - J o h n s t o n potential. It is g e n e r a t e d by doing a B r u e c k n e r type of K - m a t r i x calculation. S i nc e this p r o c e d u r e t a k e s into a c c o u n t t h e s h o r t r a n g e c o r r e l a t i o n s , th e r e s i d u a l i n t e r a c t i o n m u s t e s s e n t i a l l y be a long r a n g e one. T h e c o r r e l a t i o n s p r o d u c e d by it should then b e d e s c r i b e d by R a n d o m - P h a s e - A p p r o x i m a l i o n (RPA). We next d e s c r i b e a m o d e l to g e n e r a t e the R P A c o r r e l a t e d i n t r i n s i c state. T h i s i n t r i n s i c s t a t e i n s t e a d of the p u r e H F s t a t e will be u s e d f o r 196
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