Spin-dependent correlations in normal liquid 3He

Using a generalized Fermi hypernetted chain method on a Jastrow trial ground-state wave function, which includes a dependence on the z component of the nuclear spin, it is shown that spin correlations make a significant contribution to the ground-state energy of liquid ³He, accounting for much of the energy necessary to stabilize unpolarized liquid ³He relative to completely polarized ³He.Work supported in part by NSF grant DMR 7926447 and by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.