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Ground state of a system of many Bose particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Lekner
Affiliation:
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Abstract

A many-body variational calculation is carried out using a trial wave function which is a product of pair functions. An exact integro-differential equation for the pair function is derived, valid for any system of more than three Bose particles.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972

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