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Self-consistent assessment of Englert-Schwinger model on atomic properties

Computational Physics 2018-01-17 v1 Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Our manuscript investigates a self-consistent solution of the statistical atom model proposed by Berthold-Georg Englert and Julian Schwinger (the ES model) and benchmarks it against atomic Kohn-Sham and two orbital-free models of the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac (TFD)-λ\lambdavW family. Results show that the ES model generally offers the same accuracy as the well-known TFD-15\frac{1}{5}vW model; however, the ES model corrects the failure in Pauli potential near-nucleus region. We also point to the inability of describing low-ZZ atoms as the foremost concern in improving the present model.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05639,
  title  = {Self-consistent assessment of Englert-Schwinger model on atomic properties},
  author = {Jouko Lehtomäki and Olga Lopez-Acevedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05639},
  year   = {2018}
}

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26 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables