We present a method that accurately approximates the shell-model ground state by products of suitable states. The optimal factors are determined by a variational principle and result from the solution of rather low-dimensional eigenvalue problems. The power of this method is demonstrated by computations of ground states and low-lying excitations in sd-shell and pf-shell nuclei.
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