Thursday, March 2, 2017

quantum mechanics - Example of a wavefunction that cannot be represented by a single Slater determinant


I know that in general, interacting fermions cannot necessarily be described by a single Slater determinant. Can anyone provide a simple example of a state that has no such representation?



Answer



How about $\Psi(x_1,x_2) \equiv (x_1 -x_2)e^{-(x_1-x_2)^2}$?


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