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Modern Physics Letters B

GUTZWILLER-TYPE WAVE FUNCTIONS FOR CORRELATED FERMIONS

D. Vollhardt, P. G. J. van Dongen, Florian Gebhard, Walter Metzner

Published Apr 20, 1990• 20 citations
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Abstract

In the last few years significant theoretical progress has been made in our understanding of the physics and quality of Gutzwiller-type variational wave functions for correlated Fermi systems. In particular, new analytic techniques are now available that allow for exact evaluations of expectation values. A brief review of the state-of-the-art is presented.

DOI
10.1142/s0217984990000647

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