Canonical treatment of fluctuations and random phase approximation correlations at finite temperature

N. CANOSA; R. ROSSIGNOLI; P. RING

PHYS. REV. - C

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Lugar: New York; Año: 1999 vol. 59 p. 185 - 194

0556-2813

The static path plus random phase approximation ~SPA1RPA! to the partition function is formulated exactly in a canonical ensemble, for the case of a density decomposition of an arbitrary two-body Hamiltonian. The canonical mean field plus RPA approach is also discussed. Numerical results are shown for a quadrupole interaction, where excellent agreement with the exact canonical results for a light nucleus is obtained. An effective canonical mean field plus RPA approach is in this case also developed, which avoids the sharp phase transition of the ordinary mean field and provides a reliable estimate of full SPA1RPA results