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 He 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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5 pages