We analyze properties of trial wave functions in fractional quantum Hall effect, generated by the "short-range", three-body repulsion and its mean field approximation.Ground states of electron repulsion Hamiltonians at filing factor ν = 1/2 are evaluated as a description of physically observed state ν = 5/2.We analyze overlaps between the Moore-Read state and its mean field approximation for different number of particles and compare both states with ground state of the Coulomb interaction in the first excited Landau level.Our study also includes examination of electron-electron correlation functions and electron densities of excited states for both interactions.
Near two-body unitarity, the three-boson system is characterized by an approximate discrete scale invariance manifest in a geometric tower of bound states (the Efimov effect). In the absence of a strong four-body force, the four-boson system has two states associated with each Efimov state, one very nearly unstable, the other several times deeper. We study correlations between the excited- and ground-state properties, such as binding energies and radii, up to next-to-leading order in an effective field theory for short-range forces. We obtain the parameters in these correlations from similar correlations arising from existing precise calculations based on short-range potentials. We also derive correlations among excited-state properties that emerge from the proximity of the state to the break-up threshold into a boson and a three-boson bound state, using an effective field theory for ``halo'' states.
We study low-lying excited states of
4He clusters up to a cluster size of 40 atoms in a variational framework. The ansatz wave function combines two- and three-body correlations, coming from a translationally invariant configuration interaction description, and Jastrow-type short-range correlation. We have previously used this scheme to determine the ground-state energies of
4He and
3He clusters. Here we present an extension of this ansatz wave function having a good quantum angular momentum L. The variational procedure is applied independently to the cases with
L=0,2,4, and upper bounds for the corresponding energies are thus obtained. Moreover, centroid energies for L excitations are calculated through the use of sum rules. A comparison with previous calculations is also made.