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Fernando Vericat1, César O Stoico, C Manuel Carlevaro
1Grupo de Aplicaciones Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. vericat@iflysib.unlp.edu.ar
Abstract:
The pair distribution function of the electron gas is calculated using a parameterized generalization of hypernetted chain approximation with the parameters being obtained by optimizing the system energy with a genetic algorithm. The functions so obtained are compared with Monte Carlo simulations performed by other authors in its variational and di_usion versions showing a very good agreement especially with the di_usion Monte Carlo results.
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