Ultracold atoms at unitarity within quantum Monte Carlo
Quantum Gases
2010-03-26 v1
Abstract
Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) calculations of the properties of the zero-temperature fermionic gas at unitarity are reported. The ratio of the energy of the interacting to the non-interacting gas for a system of 128 particles is calculated to be 0.4517(3) in VMC and 0.4339(1) in the more accurate DMC method. The spherically-averaged pair-correlation functions, momentum densities, and one-body density matrices are very similar in VMC and DMC, but the two-body density matrices and condensate fractions show some differences. Our best estimate of the condensate fraction of 0.51 is a little smaller than values from other quantum Monte Carlo calculations.
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@article{arxiv.0910.0720,
title = {Ultracold atoms at unitarity within quantum Monte Carlo},
author = {Andrew J. Morris and P. Lopez Rios and R. J. Needs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0720},
year = {2010}
}