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Kinetic energies of liquid and solid phases of $^4$He

Other Condensed Matter 2015-03-05 v1

Abstract

Kinetic energies of a system of 4^4He are investigated at zero temperature. The multi-weight extension to the diffusion Monte Carlo method is used to implement the Feynman-Hellmann theorem in an effective way. This method allows the quantities of interest to be computed with excellent accuracy. In order to study the importance of symmetry in the kinetic energy calculations, we have considered for the solid phase two guiding wave functions: the Nosanov-Jastrow without boson symmetry and the symmetric Nosanov-Jastrow with boson symmetry. In general very good agreement is found with the experimental data at both the liquid and solid phases.

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@article{arxiv.1503.01163,
  title  = {Kinetic energies of liquid and solid phases of $^4$He},
  author = {E. J. Rugeles and Sebastian Ujevic and S. A. Vitiello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01163},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures