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A gauge-invariant Wigner quantum mechanical theory is obtained by applying the Weyl-Stratonovich transform to the von Neumann equation for the density matrix. The transform reduces to the Weyl transform in the electrostatic limit, when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Mihail Nedjalkov , Mauro Ballicchia , Robert Kosik , Josef Weinbub

The semi-classical approach leading to the Thomas-Fermi (TF) model provides a simple universal thermodynamic description of the electronic cloud surrounding the nucleus in an atom. This model is known to be exact at the limit of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-06 Eyal Segev , Doron Gazit

We use Landau's theory of a normal Fermi liquid to derive expressions for the static response of a system with a general tensor interaction that conserves the total spin and the total angular momentum of the quasiparticle-quasihole pair.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Olsson , P. Haensel , C. J. Pethick

The proper quantum plasma treatment of the electron gas in degenerate stars such as white dwarfs provides an additional quantum contribution to the electron pressure. The additional pressure term modifies the equation for hydrostatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 Reinhard Schlickeiser , Ian Lerche , Christian Röken

We analyze the convergence of the electron density and relative energy with respect to a perfect crystal of a class of volume defects that are compactly contained along one direction while being of infinite extent along the other two using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Dharamveer Kumar , Amuthan A. Ramabathiran

The electromagnetic interaction alters the Chandrasekhar mass limit by a factor which depends, as computed in the literature, on the atomic number of the positively charged nuclei present within the degenerate matter. Unfortunately, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Susobhan Mandal

White dwarfs are compact objects that stand against gravitational collapse by their internal pressure of degenerate matter. In this work we aimed to perform an introductory study on these stars, using two equations of state (EOS): (I) an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Sílvia Pereira Nunes , Marcelo Chiapparini , Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa

We have investigated some of the properties of dense sub-nuclear matter at the crustal region (both the outer crust and the inner crust region) of a magnetar. The relativistic version of Thomas-Fermi (TF) model is used in presence of strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-18 Nandini Nag , Sutapa Ghosh , Somenath Chakrabarty

In this work, we study the properties of magnetized white dwarfs taking into account possible instabilities due to electron capture and pycnonuclear fusion reactions in the cores of such objects. The structure of white dwarfs is obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Edson Otoniel , Bruno Franzon , Manuel Malheiro , Stefan Schramm , Fridolin Weber

A general approach to analyze the electrodynamics of nuclear matter in bulk is presented using the relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation generalizing to the case of $N \simeq (m_{\rm Planck}/m_n)^3$ nucleons of mass $m_n$ the approach well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Remo Ruffini , Michael Rotondo , She-Sheng Xue

Reference system approach of non-relativistic electron fluid theory was adapted for calculation of characteristics of the electron-nuclear model at the densities typical of degenerate dwarfs. Two- and three correlation functions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-15 M. V. Vavrukh , D. V. Dzikovskyi , N. L. Tyshko

The Thomas-Fermi approach to galaxy structure determines selfconsistently and nonlinearly the gravitational potential of the fermionic WDM particles given their quantum distribution function f(E). Galaxy magnitudes as the halo radius r_h,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We present an approach to extend plasma transport theory into the Warm Dense Matter (WDM) regime characterized by moderate Coulomb coupling and electron degeneracy. It is based on a recently proposed closure of the BBGKY hierarchy that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Shane Rightley , Scott D. Baalrud

An approach to the equation of state for the inner crust of neutron stars based on Skyrme-type forces is presented. Working within the Wigner-Seitz picture, the energy is calculated by the TETF (temperature-dependent extended Thomas-Fermi)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Onsi , A. K. Dutta , H. Chatri , S. Goriely , N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson

Equations of motion are derived for the normal and the anomalous single-electron density matrices of a Fermi liquid using a time dependent finite temperature generalized coherent state (GCS) variational ansatz for the many-body density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Berman , Shaul Mukamel

Outer crusts of neutron stars and interiors of cool white dwarfs consist of bare atomic nuclei, arranged in a crystal lattice and immersed in a Fermi gas of degenerate electrons. We study electrostatic properties of such Coulomb crystals,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 A. A. Kozhberov , A. Y. Potekhin

Forty-five years after the point de d\'epart [1] of density functional theory, its applications in chemistry and the study of electronic structures keep steadily growing. However, the precise form of the energy functional in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Philippe Blanchard , José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

We present a unified treatment of nuclear density cores recovering the classic results for neutral atoms with heavy nuclei having a mass number $A\approx 10^2--10^6$ and extrapolating these results to massive nuclear density cores with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-24 Vladimir Popov , Michael Rotondo , Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

In the context of $f\left(R, T\right) = R + 2 \beta T$ gravity, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, the equilibrium structure of charged anisotropic white dwarfs (WDs) is studied. The stellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Zhe Feng

In this work we investigate the structure of white dwarfs using the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations and compare our results with those obtained from Newtonian equations of gravitation in order to put in evidence the importance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 G. A. Carvalho , R. M. Marinho , M. Malheiro