An equation of motion method for deriving microscopic effective interactions in a correlated model space

Abstract

Starting from a diagrammatic analysis of the equation of motion method, we derive an effective interaction theory for a correlated model space where the basis vectors correspond physically to the addition of valence particles and/or holes to the true ground state of the core nucleus. The resulting effective interaction V is valence linked and connected, energy independent, and contains folded diagrams. In addition, it gives directly model eigenvectors with amplitudes that correspond to spectroscopic factors. With terms having the same number of folds grouped together, the general structure of V is very simple. This is very useful in the application of the present theory to actual microscopic nuclear structure calculations. The treatment of core projection insertions is discussed in some detail. A proof of the cancellation of the disconnected diagrams is given. When folded diagrams are summed up using a partial summation method, the present effective interaction theory is shown to be consistent with the usual Green function theory for many-body problems.