On the breaking and restoration of symmetries within the nuclear energy density functional formalism
arXiv:1010.3830 · doi:10.1142/S0218301311017612
Abstract
We review the notion of symmetry breaking and restoration within the frame of nuclear energy density functional methods. We focus on key differences between wave-function- and energy-functional-based methods. In particular, we point to difficulties encountered within the energy functional framework and discuss new potential constraints on the underlying energy density functional that could make the restoration of broken symmetries better formulated within such a formalism. We refer to Ref.~\cite{duguet10a} for details.
arXiv comment5 pages, presented at the 17th nuclear physics conference "Marie and Pierre Curie", September 2010, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
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