Finite-temperature mean-field approximations for shell model Hamiltonians: the code HF-SHELL

Abstract

We present the code HF-SHELL for solving the self-consistent mean-field equations for configuration-interaction shell model Hamiltonians in the proton-neutron formalism. The code can calculate both ground-state and finite-temperature properties in the Hartree-Fock (HF), HF+Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (HF+BCS), and the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mean-field approximations. Particle-number projection after variation is incorporated to reduce the grand-canonical ensemble to the canonical ensemble, making the code particularly suitable for the calculation of nuclear state densities. The code does not impose axial symmetry and allows for triaxial quadrupole deformations. The self-consistency cycle is particularly robust through the use of the heavy-ball optimization technique and the implementation of different options to constrain the quadrupole degrees of freedom.

arXiv comment18 pages, 5 figures, source code repository can be found at http://github.com/wryssens/hf-shell

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