Study of the Q.Q interaction
We perform shell model calculations using a quadrupole–quadrupole interaction (Q.Q). We show results in single j shell spaces and the full S-D shell. We show that one gets useful results with Q.Q in both spaces. We emphasize the importance of the choice of single particle energies in order to obtain the results of Elliott using a Q.Q interaction without the momentum terms. We show a [Formula: see text] spectrum for a ground state band but with [Formula: see text]’s different from the rotational model. We also show results such as [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] excited “spin bands”. (The latter can also be expressed as a [Formula: see text] band). We find spectra starting with [Formula: see text] which have both even [Formula: see text] and odd [Formula: see text] members.