Corrections to thomas-fermi densities at turning points and beyond

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Ribeiro, Raphael F ^a   Lee, Donghyung ^b   Cangi, Attila ^c   Elliott, Peter ^c   Burke, Kieron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Samsung SDI   (South Korea)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETICS;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; KINETIC ENERGY DENSITY; NONINTERACTING FERMIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL; SEMI-CLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; THOMAS-FERMI; TURNING POINTS; UNIFORM APPROXIMATION;

KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 84922383088     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.050401     Document Type: Article

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