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We compute the ab-initio electron density beyond the strict Born-Oppenheimer approximation in crystalline LiH and LiD with density functional methods. By taking into account the quantum mechanical nature of the nuclei, an aspect absent in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Ville J. Härkönen

The importance of the Lieb-Simon proof of the relative exactness of Thomas-Fermi theory in the large-Z limit to modern density functional theory (DFT) is explored. The principle, that there is a specific semiclassical limit in which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Kieron Burke

The Thomas-Fermi (TF) approximation for the static dielectric constant of a three-dimensional electron liquid can be derived from minimizing the TF local-density approximation for the kinetic-energy functional. Here we show that this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. P. Favaro , Joao Vitor Batista Ferreira , K. Capelle

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

The knowledge of a series expansion of the equation of state provides a deep insight into the physical nature of a quantum system. Starting from a generic ``perturbative'' equation of state of a homogeneous ultracold gas we make predictions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. E. Astrakharchik

We improve on the Thomas-Fermi approximation for the single-particle density of fermions by introducing inhomogeneity corrections. Rather than invoking a gradient expansion, we relate the density to the unitary evolution operator for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-04 Thanh Tri Chau , Jun Hao Hue , Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Berthold-Georg Englert

The Hohenberg-Kohn density functional was long ago shown to reduce to the Thomas-Fermi approximation in the non-relativistic semiclassical (or large-$Z$) limit for all matter, i.e, the kinetic energy becomes local. Exchange also becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Kieron Burke , Antonio Cancio , Tim Gould , Stefano Pittalis

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

The calculations in Thomas-Fermi approximation show that in a gravitational field each cell of ultra dense matter inside celestial bodies obtains a very small positive electric charge. A celestial body is electrically neutral as a whole,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Vasiliev

Electronic density of states (DOS) at Fermi level has been investigated in ultrathin Ag films grown on Si(111)-(7x7) down to the two dimensional limit of a single atomic layer. Measurement of DOS at Fermi level by scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 R. Batabyal , A. H. M. Abdul Wasey , J. C. Mahato , Debolina Das , G. P. Das , B. N. Dev

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

We prove the convergence of the density on the scale $Z^{-1}$ to the density of the Bohr atom (with infinitely many electrons) (strong Scott conjecture) for a model that is known to describe heavy atoms accurately.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Konstantin Merz , Heinz Siedentop

We present a method to calculate the electronic charge density of periodic solids in the GW approximation, using the space-time method. We investigate for the examples of silicon and germanium to what extent the GW approximation is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin M. Rieger , R. W. Godby

A Thomas-Fermi-Weizsaecker type theory is constructed, by means of which we are able to give a relatively simple proof of the stability of relativistic matter. Our procedure has the advantage over previous ones in that the critical value of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. H. Lieb , M. Loss , H. Siedentop

The purpose of this paper is to derive sharp asymptotics of the ground state energy for the heavy atoms and molecules in the relativistic settings, and, in particular, to derive relativistic Scott correction term and also Dirac, Schwinger…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Victor Ivrii

Based on the Thomas-Fermi solution for compressed electron gas around a giant nucleus, $Z\approx 10^6$, we study electric pulsations of electron number-density, pressure and electric fields, which could be caused by an external…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hendrik Ludwig , Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

We try to improve the Thomas-Fermi model for the total energy and electron density of atoms and molecules by directly modifying the Euler equation for the electron density, which we argue is less affected by nonlocal corrections. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeng-Da Chai , John D. Weeks

We study the absorption spectrum for a strongly degenerate Fermi gas confined in a harmonic trap. The spectrum is calculated using both the exact summation and also the Thomas-Fermi (TF) approximation. In the latter case, relatively simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gediminas Juzeliunas , Marius Masalas

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

We investigate the particle and kinetic energy densities of harmonically trapped fermion gases at zero temperature in arbitrary dimensions. We derive analytically a differential equation connecting these densities, which so far have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Matthias Brack , M. V. N. Murthy