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Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 566–569 (1980)

Ground State of the Electron Gas by a Stochastic Method

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D. M. Ceperley
National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

B. J. Alder
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550

Received 16 April 1980; published in the issue dated 18 August 1980

An exact stochastic simulation of the Schroedinger equation for charged bosons and fermions has been used to calculate the correlation energies, to locate the transitions to their respective crystal phases at zero temperature within 10%, and to establish the stability at intermediate densities of a ferromagnetic fluid of electrons.

© 1980 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.566
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.566
PACS:
67.90.+i, 71.45.Gm
 
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