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Corrections to Thomas-Fermi densities at turning points and beyond

Quantum Physics 2015-02-26 v3

Abstract

Uniform semiclassical approximations for the number and kinetic-energy densities are derived for many non-interacting fermions in one-dimensional potentials with two turning points. The resulting simple, closed-form expressions contain the leading corrections to Thomas-Fermi theory, involve neither sums nor derivatives, are spatially uniform approximations, and are exceedingly accurate.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6802,
  title  = {Corrections to Thomas-Fermi densities at turning points and beyond},
  author = {Raphael F. Ribeiro and Donghyung Lee and Attila Cangi and Peter Elliott and Kieron Burke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6802},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures

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