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Bounding the ground-state energy of a many-body system with the differential method

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

This paper promotes the differential method as a new fruitful strategy for estimating a ground-state energy of a many-body system. The case of an arbitrary number of attractive Coulombian particles is specifically studied and we make some favorable comparison of the differential method to the existing approaches that rely on variational principles. A bird's-eye view of the treatment of more general interactions is also given.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0506069,
  title  = {Bounding the ground-state energy of a many-body system with the differential method},
  author = {Amaury Mouchet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0506069},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

version 1->2 (main revisions): subsection 2.2, equation (18), footnote 6 have been added