Alternative ways to the usual diagonalization procedures to solve the self-consistent nuclear Hartree-Fock problem are discussed. It is shown that they are much faster than the conventional approach and computationally much simpler. It is shown how they can be further improved. Finally all these new methods are unified within the framework of a direct minimization of the total energy in the subspace of Slater determinants. Results are given for medium-light deformed nuclei.

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Alternative Hartree-Fock solutions.

• Received 30 July 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.21.2054