Theory of Defects in Quantum Crystals

6 October 1969

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 23 (14) , 778-781
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.23.778

Abstract

We generalize the existing theory of isotope defects by a variational method to be applicable to quantum crystals, where renormalization effects are crucial, and compare the results thus obtained with experiments.

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