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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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Donghyung Lee , Attila Cangi , Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke

An accurate non-gradient-expansion based correction to Thomas--Fermi is developed using solvable model. The used model is a system of $N$ non-interacting electrons moving independently in the Coulomb field of the nuclear charge. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexey Sergeev , Raka Jovanovic , Sabre Kais , Fahhad H Alharbi

Quantum corrections to Thomas-Fermi (TF) theory are investigated for noninteracting one-dimensional fermions with known uniform semiclassical approximations to the density and kinetic energy. Their structure is analyzed, and contributions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-15 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Kieron Burke

The first order gradient correction to the Thomas-Fermi functional, proposed by Haq, Chattaraj and Deb (Chem. Phys. Lett. vol. 81, 8031, 1984) has been studied by evaluating both the total kinetic energy and the local kinetic energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 David Garcia-Aldea , T. Martin-Blas , J. E. Alvarellos

The one-body density matrix is derived within the Extended Thomas-Fermi approximation. This has been done starting from the Wigner-Kirkwood distribution function for a non-local single-particle potential. The links between this new approach…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 V. B. Soubbotin , X. Vinas

We examine the leading order semiclassical gradient corrections to the non-interacting kinetic energy density functional of a two dimensional Fermi gas by applying the extended Thomas-Fermi theory at finite temperature. We find a non-zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Brandon P. van Zyl , K. Berkane , K Bencheikh , A. Farrell

Building on the discussion in PRA 93, 042510 (2016), we present a systematic derivation of gradient corrections to the kinetic-energy functional and the one-particle density, in particular for two-dimensional systems. We derive the leading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-08 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Yink Loong Len , Hui Khoon Ng , Berthold-Georg Englert

We propose a new method for the evaluation of the particle density and kinetic pressure profiles in inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems of non-interacting fermions, and apply it to harmonically confined systems of up to N=1000 fermions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrizia Vignolo , Anna Minguzzi , M. P. Tosi

It is shown that it is possible to bosonize fermions in any number of dimensions using the hydrodynamic variables, namely the velocity potential and density. The slow part of the Fermi field is defined irrespective of dimensionality and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Girish S. Setlur

Approximations to the many-fermion free energy density functional that include the Thomas-Fermi (TF) form for the non-interacting part lead to singular densities for singular external potentials (e.g. attractive Coulomb). This limitation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 James W. Dufty , S. B. Trickey

We consider interacting Fermi systems close to the unitary regime and compute the corrections to the energy density that are due to a large scattering length and a small effective range. Our approach exploits the universality of the density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 Anirban Bhattacharyya , T. Papenbrock

In a recent paper we have suggested that the finite temperature density matrix can be computed efficiently by a combination of polynomial expansion and iterative inversion techniques. We present here significant improvements over this…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-19 Michele Ceriotti , Thomas D. Kühne , Michele Parrinello

We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

A thorough account is given of the derivation of uniform semiclassical approximations to the particle and kinetic energy densities of N noninteracting bounded fermions in one dimension. The employed methodology allows the inclusion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Kieron Burke

We determine the energy density $\xi (3/5) n \epsilon_F$ and the gradient correction $\lambda \hbar^2(\nabla n)^2/(8m n)$ of the extended Thomas-Fermi (ETF) density functional, where $n$ is number density and $\epsilon_F$ is Fermi energy,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-27 Luca Salasnich , Flavio Toigo

In this article, we present an $O(N \log N)$ rapidly convergent algorithm for the numerical approximation of the convolution integral with radially symmetric weakly singular kernels and compactly supported densities. To achieve the reduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Awanish Kumar Tiwari , Ambuj Pandey , Jagabandhu Paul , Akash Anand

Using the $\hbar$-expansion of the Green's function of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equation, we extend the second-order Thomas-Fermi approximation to generalized superfluid Fermi systems by including the density-dependent effective mass and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-29 J. C. Pei , Na Fei , Y. N. Zhang , P. Schuck

In this article, we combine the ideas introduced by us earlier in various proportions to arrive at a simple and yet powerful means of studying single-particle properties of homogeneous Fermi systems in detail without making assumptions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Girish S. Setlur

Orbital-free density functional theory as an extension of traditional Thomas-Fermi theory has attracted a lot of interest in the past decade because of developments in both more accurate kinetic energy functionals and highly efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hong Jiang , Weitao Yang

A generalization of the Density Functional Theory is proposed. The theory developed leads to single-particle equations of motion with a quasi-local mean-field operator, which contains a quasi-particle position-dependent effective mass and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Soubbotin , V. I. Tselyaev , X. Vinas
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