A simple but accurate "core-tail" pseudopotential approach to the calculation of the conduction-band energy V0 of quasifree excess electrons and positrons in nonpolar fluids

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 9053-9057

  Plenkiewicz, B ^a   Frongillo, Y ^a   Lopez Castillo, J M ^a   Jay Gerin, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; BAND STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; LIQUIDS; POLARIZATION;

ATOM MOLECULE INTERACTIONS; CONDUCTION BAND ENERGY; CORE TAIL PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; NONPOLAR LIQUIDS; POSITRONS; WIGNER-SEITZ MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030575163     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.471640     Document Type: Article

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