Theory Of The Inhomogeneous Electron Gas
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| Author | : Stig Lundqvist |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2013-11-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1489904158 |
The theory of the inhomogeneous electron gas had its origin in the Thomas Fermi statistical theory, which is discussed in the first chapter of this book. This already leads to significant physical results for the binding energies of atomic ions, though because it leaves out shell structure the results of such a theory cannot reflect the richness of the Periodic Table. Therefore, for a long time, the earlier method proposed by Hartree, in which each electron is assigned its own personal wave function and energy, dominated atomic theory. The extension of the Hartree theory by Fock, to include exchange, had its parallel in the density description when Dirac showed how to incorporate exchange in the Thomas-Fermi theory. Considerably later, in 1951, Slater, in an important paper, showed how a result similar to but not identical with that of Dirac followed as a simplification of the Hartree-Fock method. It was Gombas and other workers who recognized that one could also incorporate electron correlation consistently into the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac theory by using uniform electron gas relations locally, and progress had been made along all these avenues by the 1950s.
| Author | : John William Gadzuk |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Electron gas |
| ISBN | : |
The case of an inhomogeneous electron gas within which the density variation is significant over a spatial range of the order of a Fermi wave-length is considered in this report. It is seen that for most systems of physical interest, this sort of non-uniformity is a result of diffraction effects. This is a fundamentally different phenomenon than can reasonably be treated by the density gradient method of Kohn for slowly varying inhomogeneous electron gases. Several sample cases are treated. The first considerations are directed towards the problem of a weak periodic potential in an interacting electron gas. The momentum-dependent self-energy is calculated for an electron propagating in the many-body medium of an electron gas plus a periodic lattice pseudo-potential. This is the equivalent of a quasi-particle energy spectrum and thus an orthogonalized plane wave energy band. It does not appear that the lattice drastically changes qualitative aspects of plane wave many-body theory. A dielectric formulation for a general inhomogeneous electron gas is presented. By introducing a new image technique, the dielectric function within the random phase approximation, which is valid in the surface region of an electron gas, is obtained. A Green's function formalism is developed for treating the static dielectric screening of a point impurity in an electron gas. The surface dielectric function is used with the impurity screening formalism to treat the problem of impurity screening in the surface region. This is an idealized model of ionic adsorption on metal surface. Screening charge densities resulting from volume polarization effects are calculated. From these results, it is seen why unjustifiable application of classical image forces in previous adsorption theories has fortunately produced reasonable results. A new method for obtaining the appropriate plasmon contribution to the electron self-energy in the surface region is developed. With these results, the electron gas surface potentials calculated by Loucks and Cutler are then improved.
| Author | : James Harold Rose |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Electron gas |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jean Maruani |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 1988-12-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9789027725981 |
Volume 1: General Introduction to Molecular Sciences Volume 2: Physical Aspects of Molecular Systems Volume 3: Electronic Structure and Chemical Reactivity Volume 4: Molecular Phenomena in Biological Sciences
| Author | : Eberhard Engel |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 543 |
| Release | : 2011-02-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3642140904 |
Density Functional Theory (DFT) has firmly established itself as the workhorse for atomic-level simulations of condensed phases, pure or composite materials and quantum chemical systems. This work offers a rigorous and detailed introduction to the foundations of this theory, up to and including such advanced topics as orbital-dependent functionals as well as both time-dependent and relativistic DFT. Given the many ramifications of contemporary DFT, the text concentrates on the self-contained presentation of the basics of the most widely used DFT variants: this implies a thorough discussion of the corresponding existence theorems and effective single particle equations, as well as of key approximations utilized in implementations. The formal results are complemented by selected quantitative results, which primarily aim at illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches or functionals. The structure and content of this book allow a tutorial and modular self-study approach: the reader will find that all concepts of many-body theory which are indispensable for the discussion of DFT - such as the single-particle Green's function or response functions - are introduced step by step, along with the actual DFT material. The same applies to basic notions of solid state theory, such as the Fermi surface of inhomogeneous, interacting systems. In fact, even the language of second quantization is introduced systematically in an Appendix for readers without formal training in many-body theory.
| Author | : Stig Lundqvist |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Eugene S. Kryachko |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 862 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9400919700 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 1984-08-13 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780080865027 |
| Author | : James R. Chelikowsky |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 1996-02-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780792396666 |
A Festschrift in honor of Professor Marvin L. Cohen This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Professor Marvin L. Cohen. The articles, contributed by leading researchers in condensed matter physics, high-light recent advances in the use of quantum theory to explain and predict properties of real materials. The invention of quantum mechanics in the 1920's provided detailed descriptions of the electronic structure of atoms. However, a similar understanding of solids has been achieved only in the past 30 years, owing to the complex electron-ion and electron electron interactions in these systems. Professor Cohen is a central figure in this achievement. His development of the pseudopotential and total energy methods provided an alternate route using computers for the exploration of solids and new materials even when they have not yet been synthesized. Professor Cohen's contributions to materials theory have been both fundamental and encompassing. The corpus of his work consists of over 500 papers and a textbook. His band structures for semiconductors are used worldwide by researchers in solid state physics and chemistry and by device engineers. Professor Cohen's own use of his theories has resulted in the determination of the electronic structure, optical properties, structural and vibrational properties, and superconducting properties of numerous condensed matter systems including semiconductors, metals, surfaces, interfaces, defects in solids, clusters, and novel materials such as the fullerides and nanotubes.
| Author | : Norman Henry March |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 913 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9814271780 |
This book provides a comprehensive review of seminal as well as recent results in the theory of condensed phases, including liquid metals, quantum liquids and Wigner crystals, along with selected applications, especially in the physical chemistry of molecules and clusters. A large part of this work is dedicated to the Thomas-Fermi semiclassical approximation for molecules and condensed phases, and its extension to inhomogeneous electron liquids and liquid metals. Correlation effects in quantum liquids and Wigner crystallization are other areas of focus of this work, with an emphasis towards the effect of low dimensionality and magnetic fields. The volume is a collection of reprints by N H March and collaborators over five decades. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Kinetic and Potential Energies of an Electron Gas (761 KB). Contents: Quantal Electron Crystals; Structure, Forces and Electronic Correlation Functions in Liquid Metals: Nuclear Structure Factor and Pair Potentials in Some sp Liquid Metals; Electronic Correlation Functions in Liquid Metals; One-Body Potential Theory of Molecules and Condensed Matter: ThomasOCoFermi Semiclassical Approximation; Transcending ThomasOCoFermi Theory; Applications of One-Body Potential Theory: Local and Non-local. Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in theoretical physics; condensed matter theorists and quantum chemists."
