Uniform electron gas at finite temperatures
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2015-06-16 v1
Abstract
We calculate the free energy of the quantum uniform electron gas for temperatures from near zero to 100 times the Fermi energy, approaching the classical limit. An extension of the Vashista-Singwi theory to finite temperatures and self-consistent compressibility sum rule is presented. Comparisons are made to other local field correction methods, as well as recent quantum Monte Carlo simulation and classical map based results. Accurate fits to the exchange-correlation free energy from both theory and simulation are given for future practical applications.
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@article{arxiv.1308.2021,
title = {Uniform electron gas at finite temperatures},
author = {Travis Sjostrom and James Dufty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2021},
year = {2015}
}