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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

Warm dense matter is one of the most active frontiers in plasma physics due to its relevance for dense astrophysical objects as well as for novel laboratory experiments in which matter is being strongly compressed e.g. by high-power lasers.…

A novel method to determine the density and temperature of a system is proposed based on quantum fluctuations typical of Fermions in the limit where the reached temperature T is small compared to the Fermi energy $\epsilon_f$ at a given…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-27 Hua Zheng , Aldo Bonasera

In the present work, we start from a minimal Hamiltonian for Fermi systems where the s-wave scattering is the only low energy constant at play. Many-Body Perturbative approach that is usually valid at rather low density is first discussed.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Antoine Boulet , Denis Lacroix

We present a general method to bosonize systems of Fermions with infinitely many degrees of freedom, in particular systems of non-relativistic electrons at positive density, by expressing the quantized conserved electric charge- and current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Froehlich , R. Goetschmann , P. A. Marchetti

We analyze the range of validity of Thomas Fermi theory for describing charge density modulations induced by external potentials in neutral graphene. We compare exact results obtained from a tight-binding calculation with those of linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

The low temperature dependence of the spin and charge susceptibilities of an anisotropic electron system in two dimensions is analyzed. It is shown that the presence of inflection points at the Fermi surface leads, generically, to a $ T…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Fratini , F. Guinea

The observation of coherent quantum transport phenomena in metals and semiconductors is limited by the eventual loss of phase coherence of the conducting electrons. We use the weak localization effect to measure the low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 M. Eshkol , E. Eisenberg , M. Karpovski , A. Palevski

In heavy atoms and molecules, on the distances $a \gg Z^{-1}$ from all of the nuclei (with a charge $Z_m$) we prove that $\rho_\Psi (x)$ is approximated in $L^p$-norm, by the Thomas-Fermi density.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Victor Ivrii

The nanofabrication technology has taught us that an $m$-dimensional confining potential imposed upon an $n$-dimensional electron gas paves the way to a quasi-($n-m$)-dimensional electron gas, with $m \le n$ and $1\le n, m \le 3$. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Manvir S. Kushwaha

We consider the ground state of a harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate within the Gross-Pitaevskii theory including the effective-range corrections for a two-body zero-range potential. The resulting non-linear Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Thøgersen , N. T. Zinner , A. S. Jensen

We establish the consistency of the Fermi liquid description and find a relation between Fermi liquid constants for the two dimensional electron system near the point of full polarization due to a parallel magnetic field $H$. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 G. Zala , B. N. Narozhny , I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Accurate treatment of the electronic correlation in inhomogeneous electronic systems, combined with the ability to capture the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas, allows to reach high predictive power in the application of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , C. R. Proetto

Physically valid and numerically efficient approximations for the exchange and correlation energy are critical for reduced density-matrix functional theory to become a widely used method in electronic structure calculations. Here we examine…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Putaja , F. G. Eich , T. Baldsiefen , E. Rasanen

Chemical accuracy serves as an important metric for assessing the effectiveness of the numerical method in Kohn--Sham density functional theory. It is found that to achieve chemical accuracy, not only the Kohn--Sham wavefunctions but also…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Yang Kuang , Yedan Shen , Guanghui Hu

We calculate the off-diagonal density matrix of the homogeneous electron gas at zero temperature using unbiased Reptation Monte Carlo for various densities and extrapolate the momentum distribution, and the kinetic and potential energies to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-15 Markus Holzmann , Bernard Bernu , Carlo Pierleoni , Jeremy McMinis , David M. Ceperley , Valerio Olevano , Luigi Delle Site

The gas of the interacted electrons is usually described within Kohn-Sham approximation by the set of Poisson and Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an effective potential for the single-particle wave functions. The solution of these equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Shul'man , D. V. Posvyanskii

We derive a closed form expression for the quantum corrections to the kinetic energy density (KED) in the Thomas-Fermi (TF) limit of a linear potential model system in three dimensions (the Airy gas). The universality of the expression is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Lindmaa , A. E. Mattsson , R. Armiento

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

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