Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2003-04-07
Phys. Rev. E 68, 046707:1-15 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
16 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.68.046707
We justify and evaluate backflow-threebody wavefunctions for a two component system of electrons and protons. Based on the generalized Feynman-Kacs formula, many-body perturbation theory, and band structure calculations, we analyze the use and the analytical form of the backflow function from different points of view. The resulting wavefunctions are used in Variational and Diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of the electron gas and of solid and liquid metallic hydrogen. For the electron gas, the purely analytic backflow and three-body form gives lower energies than those of previous calculations. For bcc hydrogen, analytical and optimized backflow-threebody wavefunctions lead to energies nearly as low as those from using LDA orbitals in the trial wavefunction. However, compared to wavefunctions constructed from density functional solutions, backflow wavefunctions have the advantage of only few parameters to estimate, the ability to include easily and accurately electron-electron correlations, and that they can be directly generalized from the crystal to a disordered liquid of protons.
Ceperley David. M.
Esler Ken
Holzmann Markus
Pierleoni Carlo
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