Abstract
Uniform semiclassical approximations for the number and kinetic-energy densities are derived for many noninteracting fermions in one-dimensional potentials with two turning points. The resulting simple, closed-form expressions contain the leading corrections to Thomas-Fermi theory, involve neither sums nor derivatives, are spatially uniform approximations, and are exceedingly accurate.
- Received 23 September 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.050401
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