Microscopic studies of solid 4He with Path Integral Projector Monte Carlo

Details Microscopic studies of solid 4He with Path Integral Projector Monte Carlo Microscopic studies of solid 4He with Path Integral Projector Monte Carlo

2007-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/0707.4099v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

Submitted to Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Progress in Many Body Theories (RPMBT14)

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We have investigated the ground state properties of solid $^4$He with the Shadow Path Integral Ground State method. This exact T=0 K projector method allows to describes quantum solids without introducing any a priori equilibrium position. We have found that the efficiency in computing off-diagonal properties in the solid phase sensibly improves when the direct sampling of permutations, in principle not required, is introduced. We have computed the exact one-body density matrix (obdm) in large commensurate 4He crystal finding a decreasing condensate fraction with increasing imaginary time of projection, making our result not conclusive on the presence of Bose-Einstein condensation in bulk solid 4He. We can only give an upper bound of 2.5 times 10^-8 on the condensate fraction. We have exploited the SPIGS method to study also 4He crystal containing grain boundaries by computing the related surface energy and the obdm along these defects. We have found that also highly symmetrical grain boundaries have a finite condensate fraction. We have also derived a route for the estimation of the true equilibrium concentration of vacancies x_v in bulk T=0 K solid 4He, which is shown to be finite, x_v=0.0014(1) at the melting density, when computed with the variational shadow wave function technique.

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