Abstract
A new approach to calculating the optimum Jastrow wave function is presented for a system of electrons in a two-dimensional quantum dot. By introducing special derivative operators which act on differences of electron coordinates as if they were independent coordinates , it is shown that the problem of finding the optimum -particle Jastrow function reduces to a three-particle problem (for). This three-particle problem is then solved using a variational method to find the optimum pair function . A perpendiculat magnetic field may also be included in the problem.
- Received 18 February 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.158
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