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Contents
Variational Density Matrix Technique
Subsections
Analogy to Zero Temperature Methods
Variational Principle for the Many Body Density Matrix
Analogy to Real-Time Wave Packet Molecular Dynamics
Example: Particle in an External Field
Variational Density Matrix Properties
Zero Temperature Limit
Loss of Symmetry
Thermodynamic Estimators
Variational Many-Particle Density Matrix
Antisymmetry in the Parameter Equations
Results from Many-Particle Simulations
Extensions of the Gaussian Ansatz
Burkhard Militzer 2003-01-15
