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Comment on ``Structure of exotic nuclei and superheavy elements in a relativistic shell model''
A recent paper [M. Rashdan, Phys. Rev. C 63, 044303 (2001)] introduces the
new parameterization NL-RA1 of the relativistic mean-field model which is
claimed to give a better description of nuclear properties than earlier ones.
Using this model ^{298}114 is predicted to be a doubly-magic nucleus. As will
be shown in this comment these findings are to be doubted as they are obtained
with an unrealistic parameterization of the pairing interaction and neglecting
ground-state deformation.Comment: 2 pages REVTEX, 3 figures, submitted to comment section of Phys. Rev.
C. shortened and revised versio
Cross-Document Pattern Matching
We study a new variant of the string matching problem called cross-document
string matching, which is the problem of indexing a collection of documents to
support an efficient search for a pattern in a selected document, where the
pattern itself is a substring of another document. Several variants of this
problem are considered, and efficient linear-space solutions are proposed with
query time bounds that either do not depend at all on the pattern size or
depend on it in a very limited way (doubly logarithmic). As a side result, we
propose an improved solution to the weighted level ancestor problem
Strong dineutron correlation in 8He and 18C
We study the spatial structure of four valence neutrons in the ground state
of He and C nuclei using a core+4 model. For this purpose, we
employ a density-dependent contact interaction among the valence neutrons, and
solve the five-body Hamiltonian in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB)
approximation. We show that two neutrons with the coupled spin of =0 exhibit
a strong dineutron correlation around the surface of these nuclei, whereas the
correlation between the two dineutrons is much weaker. Our calculation
indicates that the probability of the (1p and [(1p
(p] configurations in the ground state wave function of He
nucleus is 34.9% and 23.7%, respectively. This is consistent with the recent
experimental finding with the He(He reaction, that is, the ground
state wave function of He deviates significantly from the pure
(1p structure.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 3 table
Pairing gaps from nuclear mean-field models
We discuss the pairing gap, a measure for nuclear pairing correlations, in
chains of spherical, semi-magic nuclei in the framework of self-consistent
nuclear mean-field models. The equations for the conventional BCS model and the
approximate projection-before-variation Lipkin-Nogami method are formulated in
terms of local density functionals for the effective interaction. We calculate
the Lipkin-Nogami corrections of both the mean-field energy and the pairing
energy. Various definitions of the pairing gap are discussed as three-point,
four-point and five-point mass-difference formulae, averaged matrix elements of
the pairing potential, and single-quasiparticle energies. Experimental values
for the pairing gap are compared with calculations employing both a delta
pairing force and a density-dependent delta interaction in the BCS and
Lipkin-Nogami model. Odd-mass nuclei are calculated in the spherical blocking
approximation which neglects part of the the core polarization in the odd
nucleus. We find that the five-point mass difference formula gives a very
robust description of the odd-even staggering, other approximations for the gap
may differ from that up to 30% for certain nuclei.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in EPJ
Consequences of the center-of-mass correction in nuclear mean-field models
We study the influence of the scheme for the correction for spurious
center-of-mass motion on the fit of effective interactions for self-consistent
nuclear mean-field calculations. We find that interactions with very simple
center-of-mass correction have significantly larger surface coefficients than
interactions for which the center-of-mass correction was calculated for the
actual many-body state during the fit. The reason for that is that the
effective interaction has to counteract the wrong trends with nucleon number of
all simplified schemes for center-of-mass correction which puts a wrong trend
with mass number into the effective interaction itself. The effect becomes
clearly visible when looking at the deformation energy of largely deformed
systems, e.g. superdeformed states or fission barriers of heavy nuclei.Comment: 12 pages LATeX, needs EPJ style files, 5 eps figures, accepted for
publication in Eur. Phys. J.
Prospects for direct detection of circular polarization of gravitational-wave background
We discussed prospects for directly detecting circular polarization signal of
gravitational wave background. We found it is generally difficult to probe the
monopole mode of the signal due to broad directivity of gravitational wave
detectors. But the dipole (l=1) and octupole (l=3) modes of the signal can be
measured in a simple manner by combining outputs of two unaligned detectors,
and we can dig them deeply under confusion and detector noises. Around f~0.1mHz
LISA will provide ideal data streams to detect these anisotropic components
whose magnitudes are as small as ~1 percent of the detector noise level in
terms of the non-dimensional energy density \Omega_{GW}(f).Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, PRL in pres
Regularization of second-order scalar perturbation produced by a point-particle with a nonlinear coupling
Accurate calculation of the motion of a compact object in a background
spacetime induced by a supermassive black hole is required for the future
detection of such binary systems by the gravitational-wave detector LISA.
Reaching the desired accuracy requires calculation of the second-order
gravitational perturbations produced by the compact object. At the point
particle limit the second-order gravitational perturbation equations turn out
to have highly singular source terms, for which the standard retarded solutions
diverge. Here we study a simplified scalar toy-model in which a point particle
induces a nonlinear scalar field in a given curved spacetime. The corresponding
second-order scalar perturbation equation in this model is found to have a
similar singular source term, and therefore its standard retarded solutions
diverge. We develop a regularization method for constructing well-defined
causal solutions for this equation. Notably these solutions differ from the
standard retarded solutions, which are ill-defined in this case.Comment: 14 page
Effective Operator Treatment of the Anharmonic Oscillator
We analyse the one dimensional quartic oscillator using the effective
operator methodology of Lee and Suzuki. We reproduce known results for low
lying energy eigenvalues.Comment: 9 Pages, Extended version with new references. To appear in
Phys.ReV.
Geometry of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics
Recently, much research has been carried out on Hamiltonians that are not
Hermitian but are symmetric under space-time reflection, that is, Hamiltonians
that exhibit PT symmetry. Investigations of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue
problem associated with such Hamiltonians have shown that in many cases the
entire energy spectrum is real and positive and that the eigenfunctions form an
orthogonal and complete basis. Furthermore, the quantum theories determined by
such Hamiltonians have been shown to be consistent in the sense that the
probabilities are positive and the dynamical trajectories are unitary. However,
the geometrical structures that underlie quantum theories formulated in terms
of such Hamiltonians have hitherto not been fully understood. This paper
studies in detail the geometric properties of a Hilbert space endowed with a
parity structure and analyses the characteristics of a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian
and its eigenstates. A canonical relationship between a PT-symmetric operator
and a Hermitian operator is established. It is shown that the quadratic form
corresponding to the parity operator, in particular, gives rise to a natural
partition of the Hilbert space into two halves corresponding to states having
positive and negative PT norm. The indefiniteness of the norm can be
circumvented by introducing a symmetry operator C that defines a positive
definite inner product by means of a CPT conjugation operation.Comment: 22 Page
What can be learned from binding energy differences about nuclear structure: the example of delta V_{pn}
We perform an analysis of a binding energy difference called delta
V_{pn}(N,Z) =- 1/4(E(Z,N)-E(Z,N-2)-E(Z-2,N)+ E(Z-2,N-2) in the framework of a
realistic nuclear model. Using the angular-momentum and particle-number
projected generator coordinate method and the Skyrme interaction SLy4, we
analyze the contribution brought to delta V_{pn} by static deformation and
dynamic fluctuations around the mean-field ground state. Our method gives a
good overall description of delta V_{pn} throughout the chart of nuclei with
the exception of the anomaly related to the Wigner energy along the N=Z line.
The main conclusions of our analysis are that (i) the structures seen in the
systematics of delta V_{pn} throughout the chart of nuclei can be easily
explained combining a smooth background related to the symmetry energy and
correlation energies due to deformation and collective fluctuations; (ii) the
characteristic pattern of delta V_{pn} around a doubly-magic nucleus is a
trivial consequence of the asymmetric definition of delta V_{pn}, and not due
to a the different structure of these nuclei; (iii) delta V_{pn} does not
provide a very reliable indicator for structural changes; (iv) \delta V_{pn}
does not provide a reliable measure of the proton-neutron interaction in the
nuclear EDF, neither of that between the last filled orbits, nor of the one
summed over all orbits; (v) delta V_{pn} does not provide a conclusive
benchmark for nuclear EDF methods that is superior or complementary to other
mass filters such as two-nucleon separation energies or Q values.Comment: 19 pages and 12 figure
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