Zero-temperature study of vacancies in solid 4He

Details Zero-temperature study of vacancies in solid 4He Zero-temperature study of vacancies in solid 4He

2008-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2227v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages, LT25 Conference proceedings

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/150/3/032090

We are investigating the properties of vacancies in solid 4He with the exact zero temperature SPIGS method. Our aim is to study the possibility of phase--separation between vacancies and the perfect crystal. We find a significant correlation among vacancies both in two and in three dimensional solid 4He. In 3D we have considered up to 5 vacancies in a hcp crystal at a density rho = 0.0293 AA^-3, close to the melting, and in 2D we have considered up to 6 vacancies in a triangular crystal at rho = 0.0765 AA^-2. In all the considered cases the correlation among vacancies seems to display an exponential decay that would suggest the presence of a bound state. The systematically sublinear dependence on the number of vacancies found for the activation energy strengthens the indication of an attractive interaction, even if we have direct evidence that vacancies do not form a single compact cluster.

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