Electron momentum density and Compton profile by a semi-empirical approach

Here we propose a semi-empirical approach to describe with good accuracy the electron momentum densities and Compton profiles for a wide range of pure crystalline metals. In the present approach, we use an experimental Compton profile to fit an analytical expression for the momentum densities of the...

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Autores: Aguiar, J. C., Mitnik, Dario Marcelo, Di Rocco, Hector Omar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/21534
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/21534
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Compton Profile
Electron Momentum Density
Local Density Approximation
Lam-Platzman Correction
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Sumario:Here we propose a semi-empirical approach to describe with good accuracy the electron momentum densities and Compton profiles for a wide range of pure crystalline metals. In the present approach, we use an experimental Compton profile to fit an analytical expression for the momentum densities of the valence electrons. This expression is similar to a Fermi–Dirac distribution function with two parameters, one of which coincides with the ground state kinetic energy of the free-electron gas and the other resembles the electron–electron interaction energy. In the proposed scheme conduction electrons are neither completely free nor completely bound to the atomic nucleus. This procedure allows us to include correlation effects. We tested the approach for all metals with Z¼3–50 and showed the results for three representative elements: Li, Be and Al from high-resolution experiments.