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Solution of the Center-of-Mass Problem in Nuclear Structure Calculations...

by Gaute Hagen, T. Papenbrock, David J Dean
Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review Letters
Publication Date
Page Number
062503
Volume
103
Issue
6

The coupled-cluster wave function factorizes to a very good approximation into a product of an intrinsic wave function and a Gaussian for the center-of-mass coordinate. The width of the Gaussian is in general not identical to the oscillator length of the underlying single-particle basis. The quality of the separation can be verified by a simple procedure.