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Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Comment on “Ritz variational treatment of the 4 He trimer” by Geltman S.

Dario Bressanini

Published Aug 23, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

In this Comment we show that the recent suggestion that many published calculations of the groundstate energy of the 4He trimer might be wrong is not substantiated.
DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/95/63001

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