Richardson's solutions in the real- and complex-energy spectrum

TL;DR

This paper reformulates Richardson's solutions for the pairing Hamiltonian to include continuum states via analytic continuation, aiding the study of loosely bound systems with significant continuum correlations.

Contribution

It introduces a new formulation for calculating exact eigenenergies with continuum states using analytic continuation of Richardson's equations.

Findings

Exact eigenenergies can be obtained through analytic continuation.

The approach recovers solutions with discret complex-energy states.

Application to loosely bound systems with continuum spectrum.

Abstract

The constant pairing Hamiltonian holds exact solutions worked out by Richardson in the early Sixties. This exact solution of the pairing Hamiltonian regained interest at the end of the Nineties. The discret complex-energy states had been included in the Richardson's solutions by Hasegawa et al. [1]. In this contribution we reformulate the problem of determining the exact eigenenergies of the pairing Hamiltonian when the continuum is included through the single particle level density. The solutions with discret complex-energy states is recovered by analytic continuation of the equations to the complex energy plane. This formulation may be applied to loosely bound system where the correlations with the continuum-spectrum of energy is really important. Some details are given to show how the many-body eigenenergy emerges as sum of the pair-energies.