Extrapolation method in shell model calculations with deformed basis

Abstract

An extrapolation method in shell model calculations with deformed basis is presented, which uses a scaling property of energy and energy variance for a series of systematically approximated wave functions to the true one. Such approximated wave functions are given by variation-after-projection method concerning the full angular momentum projection. This extrapolation needs energy variance, which amounts to the calculation of expectation value of square of Hamiltonian ${\hat{H}}^2$. We present the method to evaluate this matrix element and show that large reduction of its numerical computation can be done by taking an advantage of time-reversal symmetry. The numerical tests are presented for $fp$ shell calculations with a realistic residual interaction.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C