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Kiyoshi Kato

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Four-body resonances of 7B using the complex scaling method

We study the resonance spectroscopy of the proton-rich nucleus 7B in the 4He+p+p+p cluster model. Many-body resonances are treated on the correct boundary condition as the Gamow states using the complex scaling method. We predict five resonances of 7B and evaluate the spectroscopic factors of the 6Be-p components. The importance of the 6Be(2+)-p component is shown in several states of 7B, which is a common feature of 7He, a mirror nucleus of 7B. For only the ground state of 7B, the mixing of 6Be(2+) state is larger than that of 6He(2+) in 7He, which indicates the breaking of the mirror symmetry. This is caused by the small energy difference between 7B and the excited 6Be(2+) state, whose origin is the Coulomb repulsion.

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Five-body resonances of 8He using the complex scaling method

The 0+ states of 8He are studied in a five-body 4He+n+n+n+n cluster model. Many-body resonances are treated on the correct boundary condition as Gamow states using the complex scaling method. The 0+_2 state of 8He is predicted as a five-body resonance in the excitation energy of 6.3 MeV with a width of 3.2 MeV, which mainly has a (p_{3/2})^2(p_{1/2})^2 configuration. In this state, number of the 0+ neuron pair shows almost two, which is different from the ground state having a large amount of the 2+ pair component. The monopole transition of 8He from the ground state into the five-body unbound states is also evaluated. It is found that the 7He+n component mostly exhausts the strength, while the 0+_2 contribution is negligible. The final states are dominated by 6He+n+n, not 4He+n+n+n+n. The results indicate the sequential breakup process of 8He to 7He+n to 6He+n+n by the monopole excitation.

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Resonances and continuum states of drip-line nuclei using the complex scaling method

Resonances and continuum states of He isotopes are investigated using the cluster orbital shell model (COSM) with the complex scaling method (CSM). We discuss the following subjects: 1) Spectroscopic factors of the unbound nucleus 7He into the 6He-n components and their relation to the one-neutron removal strengths of 7He. The importance of the 6He(2+) resonance is shown. 2) Structure of five-body 0+ resonance of 8He from the viewpoint of the two-neutron pair coupling. The monopole strengths into five-body unbound states are also investigated. It is found that the sequential breakup process of 8He \to 7He+n \to 6He+n+n is dominant in the monopole excitation, while the contribution of 8He(0+_2) is negligible.

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Di-neutron clustering and deuteron-like tensor correlation in nuclear structure focusing on 11Li

11Li is a Borromean nucleus, where two out of three objects as 9Li + n and two neutrons independently do not form bound systems. Two neutrons should form a di-neutron cluster in the nuclear field generated by the 9Li core nucleus. We treat di-neutron clustering by solving the two neutron relative wave function precisely by using the bare nucleon-nucleon interaction so that the spatial clustering structure is obtained quantitatively within the whole 11Li nucleus. This di-neutron clustering is an essential dynamics to form the halo structure by making a compact di-neutron cluster, which distributes loosely around the 9Li core. The di-neutron clustering is a new concept and is a general phenomenon in neutron skin and neutron halo nuclei. This quantitative description of di-neutron clustering has made it necessary to consider another important deuteron-like tensor correlation, which is caused by strong tensor interaction in the nucleon-nucleon interaction. The tensor interaction originates from pion exchange and known to provide large attraction to form the 4He nucleus. The unique feature of the tensor correlation is to make highly correlated deuteron-like excitation, which interferes with shell model like structure in a unique way. This dynamical effect removes the magic number effect and makes easy the participation of the s-wave neutrons. Hence, there are pairing and deuteron-like tensor correlations in addition to the mean field structure in 9Li. The combined system of two additional neutrons with the correlated 9Li provides the halo phenomenon, in which the di-neutron clustering develops with the help of large s-wave component caused by the deuteron-like tensor correlation. In this lecture note, we would like to introduce these two new concepts in a systematic manner and fill a gap between the halo phenomenon and the microscopic reason for this interesting phenomenon.

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One-neutron removal strength of 7He into 6He using the complex scaling method

We study the one-neutron removal strength of the 7He ground state, which provides us with the 6He-n component in 7He. The He isotopes are described on the basis of the 4He+Xn cluster model (X=1,2,3). The complex scaling method is applied to describe not only the Gamow resonances but also the nonresonant continuum states of valence neutrons, with the correct boundary condition of particle decays. The one-neutron removal strength of 7He into the unbound states of 6He is calculated using the complex-scaled Green's function, in which a complex-scaled complete set of 4He+n+n states is adopted. Using this framework, we investigate resonant and nonresonant contributions of the strength, which individually produce specific structures in the distributions. In addition, we propose a method to obtain the real-value strength using the complex values of spectroscopic factors of Gamow states. As a result, the 6He(2+) resonance is found to give the largest contribution.

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Coulomb Breakup Reactions in Complex-Scaled Solutions of the Lippmann-Schwinger Equation

We propose a new method to describe three-body breakups of nuclei, in which the Lippmann-Schwinger equation is solved combining with the complex scaling method. The complex-scaled solutions of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation (CSLS) enables us to treat boundary conditions of many-body open channels correctly and to describe a many-body breakup amplitude from the ground state. The Coulomb breakup cross section from the 6He ground state into 4He+n+n three-body decaying states as a function of the total excitation energy is calculated by using CSLS, and the result well reproduces the experimental data. Furthermore, the two-dimensional energy distribution of the E1 transition strength is obtained and an importance of the 5He(3/2-) resonance is confirmed. It is shown that CSLS is a promising method to investigate correlations of subsystems in three-body breakup reactions of the weakly-bound nuclei.

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Systematic study of $^{9,10,11}$Li with the tensor and pairing correlations

We make a systematic study of Li isotopes (A=9,10,11) in the tensor optimized shell model for 9Li and treat the additional valence neutrons in the cluster model approach by taking into account the Pauli-blocking effect caused by the tensor and pairing correlations. We describe the tensor correlations in 9Li fully in the tensor-optimized shell model, where the variation of the size parameters of the single particle orbits is essential for getting strong tensor correlations. We have shown in our previous study that in $^{10,11}$Li the tensor and pairing correlations in 9Li are Pauli-blocked by additional valence neutrons, which make the p-shell configurations pushed up in energy. As a result, the $s^2$ valence neutron component increases to reveal the halo structure of 11Li and the inversion phenomenon of the single particle spectrum in 10Li arises. Following the previous study, we demonstrate the reliability of our framework by performing a detailed systematic analysis of the structures of $^{9,10,11}$Li, such as the charge radius, the spatial correlation of halo neutrons of 11Li and the electromagnetic properties of Li isotopes. The detailed effects of the Pauli-blocking on the spectroscopic properties of $^{10,11}$Li are also discussed. It is found that the blocking acts strongly for the 11Li ground state rather than for 10Li and for the dipole excited states of 11Li, which is mainly caused by the interplay between the tensor correlation in 9Li and the halo neutrons. The results obtained in these analyses clearly show that the inert core assumption of 9Li is not realistic to explain the anomalous structures observed in $^{10,11}$Li. For the dipole excitation spectrum of 11Li, the effect of the final state interactions is discussed in terms of the dipole strength function.

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Resonances of 7He in the complex scaling method

We study the resonance spectroscopy of 7He in the 4He+n+n+n cluster model, where the motion of valence neutrons is described in the cluster orbital shell model. Many-body resonances are treated on the correct boundary condition as the Gamow states in the complex scaling method. We obtain five resonances and investigate their properties from the configurations. In particular, the 1/2- state is found in a low excitation energy of 1.1 MeV with a width of 2.2 MeV, while the experimental determination of the position of this state is not so clear. We also evaluate the spectroscopic factors of the 6He-n components in the obtained 7He resonances. The importance of the 6He(2+) state is shown in several states of 7He.

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Roles of the tensor and pairing correlations on the halo formation in 11Li

We study the roles of the tensor and pairing correlations on the halo formation in 11Li with an extended 9Li+n+n model. We first solve the ground state of 9Li in the shell model basis by taking 2p-2h states using the Gaussian functions with variational size parameters to take into account the tensor correlation fully. In 11Li, the tensor and pairing correlations in 9Li are Pauli-blocked by additional two neutrons, which work coherently to make the configurations containing the 0p1/2 state pushed up and close to those containing the 1s1/2 state. Hence, the pairing interaction works efficiently to mix the two configurations by equal amount and develop the halo structure in 11Li. For 10Li, the inversion phenomenon of s- and p-states is reproduced in the same framework. Our model furthermore explains the recently observed Coulomb breakup strength and charge radius for 11Li.

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Tensor correlation in 4He with the tensor-optimized shell model

We study the characteristics of the tensor correlation in $^4$He using a shell model type method. We treat the tensor force explicitly by performing a configuration-mixing calculation in the $2p2h$ basis and include single-particle states up to intermediately high angular momenta. We adopt the Gaussian expansion method for the quantitative description of the spatial shrinkage of the single-particle states to optimize the tensor correlation. We are able to describe the full strength of the tensor correlation for $^4$He in the shell model type method by realizing convergence. We call this model the tensor-optimized shell model. It is found that in $^4$He, three specific $2p2h$ configurations are strongly coupled with the $(0s)^4$ configuration due to the characteristic features of the tensor operator.

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Level Density in the Complex Scaling Method

It is shown that the continuum level density (CLD) at unbound energies can be calculated with the complex scaling method (CSM), in which the energy spectra of bound states, resonances and continuum states are obtained in terms of $L^2$ basis functions. In this method, the extended completeness relation is applied to the calculation of the Green functions, and the continuum-state part is approximately expressed in terms of discretized complex scaled continuum solutions. The obtained result is compared with the CLD calculated exactly from the scattering phase shift. The discretization in the CSM is shown to give a very good description of continuum states. We discuss how the scattering phase shifts can inversely be calculated from the discretized CLD using a basis function technique in the CSM.

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Tensor correlation in 4He and its Effect on the doublet splitting in 5He

We investigate the role of tensor correlation on the structures of \nuc{4}{He} and its effect on the doublet splitting in \nuc{5}{He}. We perform a configuration mixing calculation in the shell model type bases to represent the tensor correlation for $^4$He. It is found that our model describes the characteristics of the tensor correlation, which is represented by an admixture of the $0s_{1/2}$ configuration with a spatially modified $0p_{1/2}$ orbit. For $^5$He, we solve a coupled OCM equation for an extended $^4$He+$n$ model, while taking into account the tensor correlation in the $^4$He cluster. It is shown that the tensor correlation produces the Pauli blocking, in particular, for the $J^π={1/2}^-$ state, and its effect causes about half of the p-wave doublet splitting in $^5$He. This indicates that the strength of the effective spin-orbit interaction should be reduced by about half from the conventional one. We obtain a reliable $^4$He-$n$ interaction, including the tensor correlation, which further improves the behavior of the $d$- and $f$-wave phase shifts in the $^4$He+$n$ system.

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Extended 9Li+n+n three-body model of 11Li with the pairing correlation in 9Li

We discuss the binding mechanism of 11Li based on an extended three-body model of Li+n+n. In the model, we take into account the pairing correlation of p-shell neutrons in 9Li, in addition to that of valence neutrons outside the 9Li nucleus, and solve the coupled-channel two- and three-body problems of 10Li and 11Li, respectively. The results show that degrees of freedom of the pairing correlation in 9Li play an important role in the structure of 10Li and 11Li. In 10Li, the pairing correlation in 9Li produces a so-called pairing-blocking effect due to the presence of valence neutron, which degenerates s- and p-wave neutron orbits energetically. In 11Li, on the other hand, the pairing-blocking effect is surpassed by the core-n interaction due to two degrees of freedom of two valence neutrons surrounding 9Li, and as a result, the ground state is dominated by the p-shell closed configuration and does not show a spatial extension with a large r.m.s. radius. These results indicate that the pairing correlation is realized differently in odd- and even-neutron systems of 10Li and 11Li. We further improve the tail part of the 9Li-n interaction, which works well to reproduce the observed large r.m.s. radius in 11Li.

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Cluster algorithms for general-S quantum spin systems

We present a general strategy to extend quantum cluster algorithms for S=1/2 spin systems, such as the loop algorithm, to systems with arbitrary size of spins. In general, the partition function of a high-S spin system is represented in terms of the path integral of a S=1/2 model with special boundary conditions. We introduce additional graphs to be assigned to the boundary part and give the labeling probability explicitly, which completes the algorithm together with an existing S=1/2 cluster algorithm. As a demonstration of the algorithm, we simulate the the integer-spin antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains. The magnitude of the first excitation gap is estimated as to be 0.41048(6), 0.08917(4), and 0.01002(3) for S=1, 2, and 3, respectively.

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Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Random Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain

Effects of randomness on the spin-1/2 and 1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains are studied using the quantum Monte Carlo method with the continuous-time loop algorithm. We precisely calculated the uniform susceptibility, string order parameter, spatial and temporal correlation length, and the dynamical exponent, and obtained a phase diagram. The generalization of the continuous-time loop algorithm for the systems with higher-S spins is also presented.

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Four-Alpha Linear-Chain States in 16O

We study 4$α$ linear-chain states in 16O in comparison with 3$α$ states in 12C by using the Generator Coordinate Method within a microscopic $Nα$-cluster model. It is shown to be very important to solve relative motion of $α$-clusters by taking into account the orthogonality between the linear-chain states and other low-lying states including the ground state. For 12C, the 3$α$ chain state disappears because of this orthogonality. The $4α$ chain state in 16O, on the other hand, is hardly affected by low-lying states and persists to remain above the 4$α$ threshold. The calculated moment of inertia of the $4α$ linear-chain rotational band (88 keV) reproduces the experimentally suggested value qualitatively.

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