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Many-body wavefunctions for normal liquid $^3$He

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2011-05-13 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We present new trial wave-functions which include 3-body correlations into the backflow coordinates and a 4-body symmetric potential. We show that our wavefunctions lower the energy enough to stabilize the ground state energies of normal liquid 3^3He in the unpolarized state at all pressures in agreement with experiment; however, quantitative discrepancies remain. Further, we include strong spin coupling into the Fermi liquid by adapting pairing wave functions. We demonstrate a new, numerically stable method to evaluate pairing functions which is also useful for Path Integrals calculations at low, but non-zero temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605513,
  title  = {Many-body wavefunctions for normal liquid $^3$He},
  author = {Markus Holzmann and Bernard Bernu and D. M. Ceperley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605513},
  year   = {2011}
}

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