Thermodynamic perturbation scheme for the ground-state energy of Lennard-Jones bosons

Abstract
The thermodynamic perturbation scheme so successful for classical-liquid equations of state is applied to the ground-state energy of a many-boson system interacting pairwise via the Lennard-Jones intermolecular potential. The ensuing density and attractive-coupling double expansion for the energy is series analyzed with Padé techniques, as well as generalizations thereof. Results through sixth order compare with Green’s-function Monte Carlo simulations at the 1% level of accuracy.