Solution of the Skyrme—Hartree—Fock equations in the Cartesian deformed harmonic oscillator basis II. The program HFODD Original Research Article

We describe the code HFODD which solves the nuclear Skyrme—Hartree—Fock problem by using the deformed Cartesian harmonic oscillator basis. The user has a possibility of choosing among various symmetries of the nuclear HF problem for rotating or nonrotating nuclei; they vary from the non-axial parity-invariant nuclear shapes, through those also breaking the intrinsic parity, towards the least-restrictive case corresponding to only one symmetry plane. The code provides a solution for a complete superdeformed rotational band in an A ∼ 150 nucleus within one CPU hour of the CRAY C-90 supercomputer or within two-three CPU hours of a fast workstation.