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Symmetry restoration in Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov based theories
1Institute for Nuclear Theory and Department of Physics, Box 351560, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98915, USA. bertsch@uw.edu
Abstract:
We present a Pfaffian formula for projection and symmetry restoration for wave functions of the general Bogoliubov form, including quasiparticle excited states and linear combinations of them. This solves a long-standing problem in calculating states of good symmetry, arising from the sign ambiguity of the commonly used determinant formula. A simple example is given of projecting a good particle number and angular momentum from a Bogoliubov wave function in the Fock space of a single j-shell.
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