Structure of fermion nodes and nodal cells

Details Structure of fermion nodes and nodal cells Structure of fermion nodes and nodal cells

2006-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601485v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.240402

We study nodes of fermionic ground state wave functions. For 2D and higher we prove that spin-polarized, noninteracting fermions in a harmonic well have two nodal cells for arbitrary system size. The result extends to other noninteracting/mean-field models such as fermions on a sphere, in a periodic box or in Hartree-Fock atomic states. Spin-unpolarized noninteracting states have multiple nodal cells, however, interactions and many-body correlations generally relax the multiple cells to the minimal number of two. With some conditions, this is proved for interacting 2D and higher dimensions harmonic fermion systems of arbitrary size using the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer variational wave function. Implications and extent of these results are briefly discussed.

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