A simulation of a homogeneous system is done by considering a finite box of size
. One restricts interaction between the particles to a distance of
. Larger
distances should be avoided in order not to have a double counting of a same
particle which would leave to artificial correlation. Thus one introduces a cut-off
at
and a proper calculation of the energy is necessesary.
The situation is different for a Bijl-Jastrow construction of the wave function and a
Slater determinant. We will consider a generalization of the wave function containing
a product of both terms. The energy per particle in the thermodynamic limit
is given by the integral of the interaction energy from the
cut-off length
to infinity.
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(2.108) |
In the thermodynamic limit
the Jastrow force becomes zero as
the summation on
is approximated by a symmetric uniform distribution of
particles outside a sphere of
radius. So, the tail of a kinetic energy for a
Jastrow wave function is
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(2.109) |
On the opposite, there is no similar cancellation due to the symmetry in the Slater
term, but instead due to linearity the square of the first derivative is exactly
cancelled by the force squared term, thus
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(2.110) |