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The Heine-Stieltjes correspondence and a new angular momentum projection for many-particle systems
A new angular momentum projection for systems of particles with arbitrary
spins is formulated based on the Heine-Stieltjes correspondence, which can be
regarded as the solutions of the mean-field plus pairing model in the strong
pairing interaction G ->Infinity limit. Properties of the Stieltjes zeros of
the extended Heine-Stieltjes polynomials, of which the roots determine the
projected states, and the related Van Vleck zeros are discussed. The
electrostatic interpretation of these zeros is presented. As examples,
applications to n nonidentical particles of spin-1/2 and to identical bosons or
fermions are made to elucidate the procedure and properties of the Stieltjes
zeros and the related Van Vleck zeros. It is shown that the new angular
momentum projection for n identical bosons or fermions can be simplified with
the branching multiplicity formula of U(N) supset O(3) and the special choices
of the parameters used in the projection. Especially, it is shown that the
solutions for identical bosons can always be expressed in terms of zeros of
Jacobi polynomials. However, unlike non-identical particle systems, the
n-coupled states of identical particles are non-orthogonal with respect to the
multiplicity label after the projection.Comment: 14 pages LaTeX with no figur
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