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On the existence of bound helium trimers by the equivalent two-body method
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On the existence of bound helium trimers by the equivalent two-body method

T. K. Lim, Michael A. Zuniga and Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
The Journal of chemical physics, v 63(5), pp 2245-2248
01 Sep 1975

Abstract

The binding energies of the 3,4He trimers are computed for a range of realistic interatomic potentials using the equivalent two-body method of Bodmer and Ali. We find a 4He trimer bound with a binding energy of about 0.25°K and a 3He trimer which is but loosely bound. We also confirm that the Hall–Post–Stenschke method gives poor lower bounds to the energy and that (4He)3 is large, having a root mean square interparticle spacing of 23 Å.

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