Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2004-12-16
Physica A303 481 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
16 pages and 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00492-7
In a previous work one of the authors proposed a simple model for studying systems under pressure based on the Thomas-Fermi (TF) model of single atom. In this work we intend to extend the previous work to more general Thomas-Fermi models where electronic exchange and correlation are introduced. To do so, we first study numerically the equation obtained by H.W.Lewis (TFDL) which introduces the effects of exchange and correlation into the original TF equation; next the procedure followed in the previous work is extended to the new approach and a specific example is illustrated. Although one could expect that no big differences were produced by the generalized TF model, we show the qualitative as well as quantitative equivalence with detailed numerical results. These results support the robustness of our conclusions with regards to the model proposed in the previous work and give the character of universality (i.e. to pass from one atom to another, the quantities calculated must be simply scaled by a numerical factor) to the properties of compressed systems shown in this work.
Cappelluti Emmanuele
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