Numerical convergence of electromagnetic responses with the finite-amplitude method

Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA

^* e-mail: li94@llnl.gov
^** e-mail: schunck1@llnl.gov

Published online: 14 March 2024

Abstract

The response of a nucleus to an electromagnetic probe is a key quantity to simulate photabsorption or photodeexcitation processes. For large calculations at the scale of the entire mass table, this response can be estimated by linear response theory. Thanks to the introduction of the finite-amplitude method (FAM), calculations are computationally efficient. In this paper, we investigate in more details the convergence of FAM calculations of the response function as a function of the parameters controlling the numerical implementation of the theory. We show that the response is much less sensitive to the details of the single-particle basis than, e.g., Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations.