Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
1998-03-09
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
14 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.58.6800
The correlation energy of the homogeneous three-dimensional interacting electron gas is calculated using the variational and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods, with trial functions that include backflow and three-body correlations. In the high density regime the effects of backflow dominate over those due to three-body correlations, but the relative importance of the latter increases as the density decreases. Since the backflow correlations vary the nodes of the trial function, this leads to improved energies in the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo calculations. The effects are comparable to those found for the two-dimensional electron gas, leading to much improved variational energies and fixed-node diffusion energies equal to the release-node energies of Ceperley and Alder within statistical and systematic errors.
Ceperley David. M.
Kwon Yongkyung
Martin Richard M.
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