Effective-potential expansion method for the many-body problem at finite temperatures. II. Application to a one-dimensional electron system with a repulsive δ-function interaction

A one-dimensional many-electron system with a repulsive δ-function interaction is studied by the application of the variational method developed in the preceding paper [Takada and Kita, Phys. Rev. A 42, 3242 (1990)] in order to illustrate its actual implementation. Our results on the grand potential, the entropy, and the specific heat are compared in detail with the exact ones that are calculated by the numerical solution of the coupled integral equations obtained by the Bethe ansatz.