Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2006-07-07
Physics
Chemical Physics
30 pages, 4 figures, preprint, Computer Physics Communications (in press)
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.cpc.2006.08.006
FERM3D is a three-dimensional finite element program, for the elastic scattering of a low energy electron from a general polyatomic molecule, which is converted to a potential scattering problem. The code is based on tricubic polynomials in spherical coordinates. The electron-molecule interaction is treated as a sum of three terms: electrostatic, exchange. and polarisation. The electrostatic term can be extracted directly from ab initio codes ({\sc{GAUSSIAN 98}} in the work described here), while the exchange term is approximated using a local density functional. A local polarisation potential based on density functional theory [C. Lee, W. Yang and R. G. Parr, {Phys. Rev. B} {37}, (1988) 785] describes the long range attraction to the molecular target induced by the scattering electron. Photoionisation calculations are also possible and illustrated in the present work. The generality and simplicity of the approach is important in extending electron-scattering calculations to more complex targets than it is possible with other methods.
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