Many-body wavefunctions for normal liquid He3
Abstract
We present new trial wave functions which include three-body correlations into the backflow coordinates and a four-body symmetric potential. We show that our wave functions lower the energy enough to stabilize the ground state energies of normal liquid He3 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 nonzero temperatures.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- September 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.104510
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0605513
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvB..74j4510H
- Keywords:
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- 67.55.-s;
- Normal phase of liquid <sup>3</sup>He;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages