NONSPURIOUS HARMONIC-OSCILLATOR STATES IN SINGLE-PARTICLE COORDINATES

A procedure for the construction of nonspurious harmonic oscillator wave functions with arbitrary permutational symmetry has recently been proposed. The resulting wave functions are expressed in terms of normalized Jacobi coordinates, and involve a new type of harmonic oscillator coefficients of fractional parentage. A simple algorithm to transform these states from the Jacobi coordinates to the single particle coordinates is presented. This is a generalization to an arbitrary number of particles of the harmonic oscillator transformation from center-of-mass and relative coordinates to single particle coordinates. © 1990 American Institute of Physics.