Minimal mass-size of a stable 3He cluster
arXiv:physics/0408127 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.71.035201
Abstract
The minimal number of 3He atoms required to form a bound cluster has been estimated by means of a Diffusion Monte Carlo procedure within the fixed-node approximation. Several importance sampling wave functions have been employed in order to consider different shell-model configurations. The resulting upper bound for the minimal number is 32 atoms.
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