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The Thomas - Fermi equation describing the screening of the Coulomb potential inside heavy neutral atoms is reconsidered. An accurate representation for its numerical solution was obtained by means of the variational principle. The proposed…
We obtain highly accurate solutions to the Thomas-Fermi equations for atoms and atoms in very strong magnetic fields. We apply the Pad\'e-Hankel method, numerical integration, power series with Pad\'e and Hermite-Pad\'e approximants and…
The energy spectra of atomic ions are re-examined from the point of view of Thomas-Fermi scaling relations. For the first ionization potential, which sets the energy scale for the true discrete spectrum, Thomas-Fermi theory predicts the…
It is well known that the ultra-relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation, amply adopted in the study of heavy nuclei, admits an exact solution for a constant proton distribution within a spherical core of radius Rc. Here exact solutions of a…
We briefly review the Thomas-Fermi statistical model of atoms in the classical non-relativistic formulation and in the generalised finite-nucleus relativistic formulation. We then discuss the classical generalisation of the model to finite…
Solution of the Cox-Thompson inverse scattering problem at fixed energy [1,2,3] is reformulated resulting in semi-analytic equations. The new set of equations for the normalization constants and the nonphysical (shifted) angular momenta are…
The Thomas-Fermi approximation for an atomic wavefunction is used to calculate the interaction of a neutron spin with the atomic electric field, either through motional magnetic (v x E) or possibly electric (due to the possible existence of…
We report on an original method, due to Majorana, leading to a semi-analytical series solution of the Thomas-Fermi equation, with appropriate boundary conditions, in terms of only one quadrature. We also deduce a general formula for such a…
In the Thomas-Fermi model for the atom or ion, the electric potential $\phi$ and electron density $n$ are both expressed in terms of a screening number $\chi$ and the radius $x$. The second order differential equation for the screening…
Employing a local formula for the electron-electron interaction energy, we derive a self-consistent approximation for the total energy of a general $N$-electron system. Our scheme works as a local variant of the Thomas-Fermi approximation…
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…
Thomas-Fermi model is applied to describe some basic properties of a negative hydrogen ion in a strong electric field. The equilibrium ionic size, energy and polarizability of the ion are calculated. Collective modes of the dipole…
In this paper, we propose Hermite collocation method for solving Thomas-Fermi equation that is nonlinear ordinary differential equation on semi-infinite interval. This method reduces the solution of this problem to the solution of a system…
Analytical solutions of the Bohr Hamiltonian are obtained in the $\gamma$-unstable case, as well as in an exactly separable rotational case with $\gamma\approx 0$, called the exactly separable Morse (ES-M) solution. Closed expressions for…
In this short note we argue that Thomas-Fermi Theory the simplest of all density functional theories, although failing to explain features such as binding or stability of negative ions, is surprisingly accurate in estimating sizes of atoms.…
A fully analytical approximation for the observable characteristics of many-electron atoms is developed via a complete and orthonormal hydrogen-like basis with a single-effective charge parameter for all electrons of a given atom. The basis…
The explicit analytic solution of the Thomas Fermi equation thorough a new kind of analytic technique, namely the homotopy analysis method, was employed by Liao (Appl. Math. Comp. 144, (2003)). However, the base functions and the auxiliary…
We study the stationary solution of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate coupled coherently to a molecular condensate with both repulsive and attractive interspecies interactions confined in an isotropic harmonic trap. We use the Thomas-Fermi…
In our work we construct a Hamiltonian, whose eigenstates approximate the solutions of the self-consistent Hartree-Fock equations for nonrelativistic atoms and ions. Its eigenvalues are given by completely algebraic expressions and the…
In this work, the calculation of complexity on atomic systems is considered. In order to unveil the increasing of this statistical magnitude with the atomic number due to the relativistic effects, recently reported in [A. Borgoo, F. De…