Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: The uniform electron gas, the traditional starting point for density-based many-body theories of inhomogeneous systems, is inappropriate near electronic edges. In its place we put forward the appropriate concept of the edge electron gas.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: Walter Kohn, Ann E. Mattsson
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2002323044