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Ground state of a homogeneous Bose gas: a diffusion Monte Carlo calculation

arXiv:cond-mat/9902185 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.60.5129

Abstract

We use a diffusion Monte Carlo method to calculate the lowest energy state of a uniform gas of bosons interacting through different model potentials, both strictly repulsive and with an attractive well. We explicitly verify that at low density the energy per particle follows a universal behavior fixed by the gas parameter na^3. In the regime of densities typical for experiments in trapped Bose-condensed gases, the corrections to the mean-field energies greatly exceed the differences due to the details of the potential.

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