The elastic constants of solid 4He under pressure: a diffusion Monte Carlo study

Details The elastic constants of solid 4He under pressure: a diffusion Monte Carlo study The elastic constants of solid 4He under pressure: a diffusion Monte Carlo study

2011-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/1106.1520v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

21 pages, 7 figures

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We study the elasticity of perfect 4He at zero-temperature using the diffusion Monte Carlo method and a realistic semi-empirical pairwise potential to describe the He-He interactions. Specifically, we calculate the value of the elastic constants of hcp helium C_{ij} as a function of pressure up to 110 bar. It is found that the pressure dependence of all five non-zero C_{ij} is linear and we provide accurate parametrization of each of them. Our elastic constants results are compared to previous variational calculations and low-temperature measurements and in general notably good agreement is found among them. Furthermore, we report T = 0 results for the Gruneisen parameters, sound velocities and Debye temperature of hcp 4He. This work represents the first of a series of computational studies aimed at thoroughly characterizing the response of solid helium to external stress-strain.

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