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Physical Review

Bose-Einstein Condensation for a Class of Wave Functions

L. Reatto

Published Jul 5, 1969• 72 citations
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Abstract

It is verified that the class of wave functions used in variational calculations for $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ has Bose-Einstein condensation. These trial wave functions have the form of a product of pair functions. Two cases are considered: In the first the correlations in the wave function are assumed to be short range and in the second the correlations include also the long-range part due to the zero-point motion of phonons. The one- and two-dimensional system is briefly considered.

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10.1103/physrev.183.334

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It is verified that the class of wave functions used in variational calculations for 4He^{4}\mathrm{He}4He has Bose-Einstein condensation. These trial wave functions have the form of a product of pair functions. Two cases are considered: In the first the correlations in the wave function are assumed to be short range and in the second the correlations include also the long-range part due to the zero-point motion of phonons. The one- and two-dimensional system is briefly considered.
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A trial wave function describing the ground state of a quantum system of NNN interacting bosons is written in the Jastrow form, a product of pair functions. With the interaction potential chosen to represent liquid He4{\mathrm{He}}^{4}He4, and with the parametrized form of the pair function chosen to include a long-range term which has been found necessary to represent the zero-point motion of the long-wavelength density oscillations, a variational calculation has been performed using a new approximate integral equation for the pair distribution function. This equation, which can also be used for classical fluids, is found to be more accurate for repulsive potentials than the Percus-Yevick equation and comparable to (but much simpler than) the Percus-Yevick 2 equation. The essential results are that including the zero-point motion in the wave function tends to lower the energy, raises the equilibrium density, corrects the behavior of the structure function and the momentum distribution of the particles in the low-wave-number region, and slightly decreases the Bose-Einstein condensate fraction. The value of the lower limit on the wavelength of the density oscillations was determined variationally to be about three interparticle spacings.
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