We consider the Jastrow pair-product wavefunction for strongly correlated Bose systems, in our case liquid helium-4. An ansatz is proposed for the pair factors which consist of a numeric solution to a modified and parametrized pair scattering equation. We consider a number of such simple one-variable parametrizations. Additionally, we allow for a parametrizeable cutoff of the pair factors and for the addition of a long-range phonon tail. This approach results in many-body wavefunctions that have between just one and three variational parameters. Calculation of observables is carried with the variational Monte Carlo method. We find that such a simple parametrization is sufficient to produce results that are comparable in quality to the best available two-body factors for helium. For the two-parameter wavefunction, we find variational energies of −6.04 K per particle for a system of one thousand particles. It is also shown that short-range two-body correlations are reproduced in good detail by the two- and three-parameter functions.
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