Lowering of the Kinetic Energy in Interacting Quantum Systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 28, 2002, Pages

  Militzer, Burkhard ^a   Pollock, E L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON GAS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FERMI SURFACE; FREE ENERGY; GROUND STATE; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMAS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

COULOMB INTERACTION; DENSE HYDROGEN PLASMA; ELECTRON REPULSION; PATH INTEGRAL MONTE CARLO; THERMODYNAMIC PERTURBATION THEORY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037207333     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.280401     Document Type: Article

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