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We consider a three-component Fermi gas that has SU(3) symmetry and is confined to two dimensions (2D). For realistic cold atomic gas experiments, we show that the phase diagram of the quasi-2D system can be characterized using two 2D…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-27 Thomas Kirk , Meera M. Parish

Recently, Benedikter and the author proved an approximate formula for the momentum distribution of a 3d fermionic gas interacting by a short-range pair potential in the mean-field regime, within a trial state close to the ground state.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Sascha Lill

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method is a powerful plasma simulation tool for investigating high-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction. However, its simulation capability at high-density plasmas around the Fermi temperature is considered…

We derive an exact result for the averaged Feynman propagator and the corresponding density of states of an electron in two dimensions in a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field and a Gaussian random potential with long-range spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lothar Spies , Walter Apel , Bernhard Kramer

By incorporating the zero-point energy contribution we derive simple and accurate extensions of the usual Thomas-Fermi (TF) expressions for the ground-state properties of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates that remain valid for an arbitrary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 A. Muñoz Mateo , V. Delgado

In a recent paper [Phys.~Rev.~A {\bf 89}, 022503 (2014)], the average density approximation (ADA) was implemented to develop a parameter-free, nonlocal kinetic energy functional to be used in the orbital-free density-functional theory of an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-25 J. Towers , B. P. van Zyl , W. Kirkby

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

We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Phanish Suryanarayana , Arpit Bhardwaj , Xin Jing , Shashikant Kumar , John E. Pask

We present an approach based on density-functional theory for the calculation of fundamental gaps of both finite and periodic two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems. The computational cost of our approach is comparable to that of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Alberto Guandalini , Alice Ruini , Esa Räsänen , Carlo Andrea Rozzi , Stefano Pittalis

Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods are employed to investigate the zero-temperature phase diagram of the three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas at very low density. Fermi fluid and body-centered cubic Wigner crystal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Sam Azadi , N. D. Drummond

In a previous work one of the authors proposed a simple model for studying systems under pressure based on the Thomas-Fermi (TF) model of single atom. In this work we intend to extend the previous work to more general Thomas-Fermi models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Cappelluti , L. Delle Site

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 consider N fermions in a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential interacting with a very short-range repulsive pair-wise potential. The ground-state energy of this system is obtained by performing a Thomas-Fermi as well as a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. K. Srivastava , R. K. Bhaduri , J. Law , M. V. N. Murthy

Using an ultracold gas of atoms, we have realized a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi system with widely tunable s-wave interactions nearly in a ground state. Pressure and density are measured. The experiment covers physically different regimes:…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-03-26 Vasiliy Makhalov , Kirill Martiyanov , Andrey Turlapov

We introduce an accurate and efficient method for a class of nonlocal potential evaluations with free boundary condition, including the 3D/2D Coulomb, 2D Poisson and 3D dipolar potentials. Our method is based on a Gaussian-sum approximation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Lukas Exl , Norbert J. Mauser , Yong Zhang

The momentum distribution of the unpolarized uniform electron gas in its Fermi-liquid regime, n(k,r_s), with the momenta k measured in units of the Fermi wave number k_F and with the density parameter r_s, is constructed with the help of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Paul Ziesche

By inverting the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation for a numerically exact dynamics of the helium atom, we show that the dynamical step and peak features of the exact correlation potential found previously in one-dimensional models persist…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Davood Dar , Lionel Lacombe , Johannes Feist , Neepa Maitra

We consider two-dimensional (2D) "artificial atoms" confined by an axially symmetric potential $V(\rho)$. Such configurations arise in circular quantum dots and other systems effectively restricted to a 2D layer. Using the semiclassical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , Avik Halder , Vitaly V. Kresin

The various thermodynamic functions dependence on degree of energy band occupation and temperature was studied. The one-band tight binding approximation for the electron energy spectrum was used. The Fermi energy, density of states,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-11 B. V. Karpenko , A. V. Kuznetzov , V. V. Dyakin

We present an accurate and efficient real-space formulation of the Hellmann-Feynman stress tensor for $\mathcal{O}(N)$ Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). While applicable at any temperature, the formulation is most efficient at high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Abhiraj Sharma , Sebastien Hamel , Mandy Bethkenhagen , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana