Electron gas exchange for atoms
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 16 (4), 1358-1362
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.16.1358
Abstract
Current use of electron gas theory for exchange allows calculations of Hartree-Fock (HF) energies through the use of local potentials. A recent proposal of Gopinathan, Whitehead, and Bogdanović to use a realistic pair correlation function that incorporates the boundary conditions of Kutzelnigg, Del Re, and Berthier, which consider the finite number of electrons of a given spin, showed much better agreement with atomic HF calculations. This paper explores the use of an improved either with the electron cloud form (exponential) or with a modified Wigner form. The total energies obtained from this method are in excellent agreement with HF total energies. The calculated total energies lie above the HF values; we interpret this as an open possibility for the inclusion of refinements such as the inhomogeneity corrections.
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