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Many-body wavefunctions for normal liquid 3He

Markus Holzmann, Bernard Bernu, D. M. Ceperley

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0605513

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 3He 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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