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Theory of the Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. S. Lundqvist

    1. Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

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  2. N. H. March

    1. Theoretical Chemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

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Part of the book series: Physics of Solids and Liquids (PSLI)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Origins—The Thomas-Fermi Theory

    • N. H. March
    Pages 1-77

  3. General Density Functional Theory

    • W. Kohn, P. Vashishta
    Pages 79-147

  4. Density Oscillations in Nonuniform Systems

    • S. Lundqvist
    Pages 149-188

  5. Applications of Density Functional Theory to Atoms, Molecules, and Solids

    • A. R. Williams, U. von Barth
    Pages 189-308

  6. Density Functional Approach to the Electronic Structure of Metal Surfaces and Metal-Adsorbate Systems

    • N. D. Lang
    Pages 309-389

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 391-395
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The theory of the inhomogeneous electron gas had its origin in the Thomas­ Fermi statistical theory, which is discussed in the first chapter of this book. This already leads to significant physical results for the binding energies of atomic ions, though because it leaves out shell structure the results of such a theory cannot reflect the richness of the Periodic Table. Therefore, for a long time, the earlier method proposed by Hartree, in which each electron is assigned its own personal wave function and energy, dominated atomic theory. The extension of the Hartree theory by Fock, to include exchange, had its parallel in the density description when Dirac showed how to incorporate exchange in the Thomas-Fermi theory. Considerably later, in 1951, Slater, in an important paper, showed how a result similar to but not identical with that of Dirac followed as a simplification of the Hartree-Fock method. It was Gombas and other workers who recognized that one could also incorporate electron correlation consistently into the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac theory by using uniform electron gas relations locally, and progress had been made along all these avenues by the 1950s.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

    S. Lundqvist

  • Theoretical Chemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

    N. H. March

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