Density dependence of excess electronic ground-state energies in simple atomic fluids
Density dependence of excess electronic ground-state energies in simple atomic fluids
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简单原子流体中过量电子基态能量的密度依赖性
DOI:
10.1063/1.463138
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
G. Martyna
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作者:
Brian Space;D. Coker;Zhihua Liu;B. Berne;G. Martyna
The ground‐state energies of an excess electron E0 as a function of solvent density are computed using model electron–atom pseudopotentials in fluid helium, argon, and xenon. E0 is a lower bound to the experimentally measurable threshold to photoconductivity, V0. The nonuniqueness of the pseudopotential description of electron–molecule interactions is demonstrated. We find that when many‐body polarization effects are included, our calculated E0 results are in close agreement with experimental V0 values indicating that the conduction‐band energy lies close to the ground‐state energy across a broad range of densities in these polarizable fluids. If the many‐body nature of the polarization interaction is ignored the ground‐state energies deviate significantly from the V0 results highlighting the importance of accurate treatment of many‐body polarization interactions. It is shown that a mean‐field theory of polarization gives substantial agreement with full many‐body calculations. This allows us to introduce ...