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Numerical solution of the relativistic single-site scattering problem for the Coulomb and the Mathieu potential

Materials Science 2017-09-25 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

For a reliable fully-relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green function method, an accurate solution of the underlying single-site scattering problem is necessary. We present an extensive discussion on numerical solutions of the related differential equations by means of standard methods for a direct solution and by means of integral equations. Our implementation is tested and exemplarily demonstrated for a spherically symmetric treatment of a Coulomb potential and for a Mathieu potential to cover the full-potential implementation. For the Coulomb potential we include an analytic discussion of the asymptotic behaviour of irregular scattering solutions close to the origin (r1r\ll1).

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@article{arxiv.1506.07743,
  title  = {Numerical solution of the relativistic single-site scattering problem for the Coulomb and the Mathieu potential},
  author = {Matthias Geilhufe and Steven Achilles and Markus Arthur Köbis and Martin Arnold and Ingrid Mertig and Wolfram Hergert and Arthur Ernst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07743},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures, preprint