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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3487–3490 (1998)

Edge Electron Gas

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Walter Kohn and Ann E. Mattsson
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 91306-9530

Received 12 June 1998; published in the issue dated 19 October 1998

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.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3487
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3487
PACS:
71.15.Mb, 31.15.Bs, 31.15.Ew, 73.90.+f