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The ground state of solid $^4$He is studied using the diffusion Monte Carlo method and a new trial wave function able to describe the supersolid. The new wave function is symmetric under the exchange of particles and reproduces the…
The main features of the possible quadrupolar glass state in ortho-deuterium and para-hydrogen under high pressure are predicted and considered in replica-symmetric approximation in analogy with glassy behavior of diluted ortho-hydrogen at…
We have used the variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods to calculate the energy, pair correlation function, static structure factor, and momentum density of the ground state of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas. We…
Using a diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) technique, we calculated the phase diagram of 3He adsorbed on a first solid layer of a molecular hydrogen isotope (H2,HD and D2) on top of graphite. The results are qualitatively similar in all cases: a…
The high-pressure II-III phase transition in solid hydrogen is investigated using the random phase approximation and diffusion Monte Carlo. Good agreement between the methods is found confirming that an accurate treatment of exchange and…
In order to provide a comprehensive theoretical description of MgSiO$_3$ at extreme conditions, we combine results from path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and density functional molecular dynamics simulations (DFT-MD) and generate a…
X.-D. Liu et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 065301 (2017)] report on the existence of a new unique solid phase of D2, which makes the high-pressure low-temperature behavior distinct from H2. Here, based on the analysis of their Raman data and…
We present helium atom micro-diffraction as an ideal technique for characterization of 2D materials due to its ultimate surface sensitivity combined with sub-micron spatial resolution. Thermal energy neutral helium scatters from the valence…
The behavior of quantum fluids (4He and H2) within nanopores is explored in various regimes, using several different methods. A focus is the evolution of each fluid's behavior as pore radius R is increased. Results are derived with the path…
We calculate the dynamic structure function of two-dimensional liquid $^4$He at zero temperature employing a quantitative multi-particle fluctuations approach up to infinite order. We observe a behavior that is qualitatively similar to the…
Path integral Monte Carlo simulation of the dipositronium "molecule" Ps$_2$ reveals its surprising thermal instability. Although, the binding energy is $\sim 0.4$ eV, due to the strong temperature dependence of its free energy Ps$_2$…
We present an accurate computational study of the electronic structure and lattice dynamics of solid molecular hydrogen at high pressure. The band-gap energies of the $C2/c$, $Pc$, and $P6_3/m$ structures at pressures of 250, 300, and 350…
Holographic duality provides a description of strongly coupled quantum systems in terms of weakly coupled gravitational theories in a higher-dimensional space. It is a challenge, however, to quantitatively determine the physical parameters…
The two dimensional Hubbard model with a single spin-up electron interacting with a finite density of spin-down electrons is studied using the quantum Monte Carlotechnique, a new conjugate gradient method for the evaluation of the Edwards…
We show that at any temperature, the low-energy (with respect to the chemical potential) collective excitations of the transverse components of the energy-momentum tensor and the global U(1) current in the field theory dual to the planar…
The two-dimensional (2D) homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is a fundamental model in quantum many-body physics. It is important to theoretical and computational studies, where exchange-correlation energies computed in it serve as the…
Using molecular dynamics simulations and integral equations (Rogers-Young, Percus-Yevick and hypernetted chain closures) we investigate the thermodynamic of particles interacting with continuous core-softened intermolecular potential.…
The dynamic and static critical behavior of five binary Lennard-Jones liquid mixtures, close to their continuous demixing points (belonging to the so-called model H' dynamic universality class), are studied computationally by combining…
We investigate the zero-temperature properties of a diluted homogeneous Bose gas made of $N$ particles interacting via a two-body square-well potential by perfor ming Monte Carlo simulations. We tune the interaction strength to achieve…
We propose a theoretical description of possible orientational glass transition in solid molecular para-hydrogen and ortho-deuterium under pressure supposing that they are mixtures of J=0 and J=2 states of molecules. The theory uses the…