Impact of the Coriolis interaction on the potential landscape evolution across the nuclide chart: Systematic total-Routhian-surface calculations

Abstract

Abstract Rotational structure properties along the yrast line for 766 observed even–even nuclei with Z ≥ 20 in the nuclide chart have been systematically studied by means of the approach of pairing-deformation self-consistent total Routhian surface calculations in three-dimensional deformation space (β 2, γ, β 4). Typical two-dimensional maps of the total nuclear energy are presented as functions of rotational frequency ℏ ω. Various types of physical quantities (including nuclear shapes, aligned angular momenta, pairing gaps and excitation energies) are presented in the (Z, N) plane, indicating the overall characteristics. The ground-state deformations are compared with experimental data and other theoretical results. The present investigation shows that the Coriolis coupling may affect the overall properties systematically, for instance, enforcing regular drifts of the different deformation ‘islands’. We believe that the synthetic presentation will be helpful when planning high-spin experiments, especially in the data-scarce drip-line or superheavy regions. Moreover, such systematic and large-scale calculation and analysis can help overcoming and eliminating the bias among different theoretical models and be useful for checking and developing them.