Molecular dynamics for fermions
Abstract
The time-dependent variational principle for many-body trial states is used to discuss the relation between the approaches of different molecular-dynamics models that describe indistinguishable fermions. Early attempts to include effects of the Pauli principle by means of nonlocal potentials, as well as more recent models that work with antisymmetrized many-body states, are reviewed under these premises.
- Publication:
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Reviews of Modern Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/RevModPhys.72.655
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0001207
- Bibcode:
- 2000RvMP...72..655F
- Keywords:
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- 05.30.Fk;
- 02.30.Wd;
- 02.70.Ns;
- 01.30.Rr;
- Fermion systems and electron gas;
- Molecular dynamics and particle methods;
- Surveys and tutorial papers;
- resource letters;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Nuclear Theory;
- Physics - Plasma Physics
- E-Print:
- 97 pages, 13 postscript figures. To be published in July 2000 issue of Reviews of Modern Physics. More information at http://www-aix.gsi.de/~fmd/