Quantum Phase Crossover in the Spherical Mean-field plus Q·Q and Pairing Model within a Single-j Shell

The analysis of the quantum phase crossover behavior in the spherical shell model mean-field plus the geometric quadrupole-quadrupole (Q·Q) and standard pairing model within a single-j shell is reported. Several quantities, such as low-lying excitation energies, the overlaps of excited states, ratios of some B(E2) and electric quadrupole moments of some low-lying states as functions of the control parameter of the model in a j=15/2 shell are calculated. The results show that there are noticeable changes in the crossover region of the rotational-like to the pair-excitation phase transition, such as B(E2;4₁ → 2₁)/B(E2;2₁ → 0_g) and B(E2;4₂ → 2₁)/B(E2;2₁ → 0_g), especially in the half-filling case. Though the low-lying excitation energies generated from the geometric quadrupole-quadrupole interaction not satisfy the pattern of a rotational spectrum when j is small, these energies follow the pattern of a rotational spectrum when j is sufficiently large.