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Local-density-functional calculations of the Energy of Atoms

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Author(s)

Svetlana A. Kotochigova, Zachary H. Levine, Eric L. Shirley, Mark D. Stiles, Charles W. Clark

Abstract

The total energies of atoms and with atomic number Ζ from 1 to 92 and singly-charge cations with Ζ from 2 to 92 have been calculated to an accuracy of 1 υHartree within four variants of the Kohn-Sham local-density approximation. The approximations considered are: the local-density approximation, the local-spin-density approximation, the relativistic local-density approximation, and the scalar-relativistic local-density approximation. The total energies for the LDA are found to be in 0.1% agreement with a largeatomic- number expansion from many-body theory for Ζ ≥ 40. Comparison to experiment is made for the ionization energies and spin-orbit splittings; also the total energies and eigenvalues of the various theories are compared among themselves.
Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume
55
Issue
1

Citation

Kotochigova, S. , Levine, Z. , Shirley, E. , Stiles, M. and Clark, C. (1997), Local-density-functional calculations of the Energy of Atoms, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=620476 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created December 31, 1996, Updated October 12, 2021