Excited states of <sup>4</sup>He droplets

We study low-lying excited states of <sup>4</sup>He clusters up to a cluster size of 40 atoms in a variational framework. The ansatz wave function combines two- and three-body correlations, coming from a translationally invariant configuration interaction description, and Jastrow-type sh...

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Autores principales: Guardiola, R., Navarro, J., Portesi, Mariela Adelina
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/104412
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/98628
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.224519
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Sumario:We study low-lying excited states of <sup>4</sup>He clusters up to a cluster size of 40 atoms in a variational framework. The ansatz wave function combines two- and three-body correlations, coming from a translationally invariant configuration interaction description, and Jastrow-type short-range correlation. We have previously used this scheme to determine the ground-state energies of <sup>4</sup>He and <sup>3</sup>He clusters. Here we present an extension of this ansatz wave function having a good quantum angular momentum L. The variational procedure is applied independently to the cases with L = 0,2,4, and upper bounds for the corresponding energies are thus obtained. Moreover, centroid energies for L excitations are calculated through the use of sum rules. A comparison with previous calculations is also made.