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Xe films on a decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal surface
The grand canonical Monte Carlo method is employed to study the adsorption of
Xe on a quasicrystalline Al-Ni-Co surface. The calculation uses a semiempirical
gas-surface interaction, based on conventional combining rules and the usual
Lennard-Jones Xe-Xe interaction. The resulting adsorption isotherms and
calculated structures are consistent with the results of LEED experimental
data. In this paper we focus on five features not discussed earlier (Phys. Rev.
Lett. 95, 136104 (2005)): the range of the average density of the adsorbate,
the order of the transition, the orientational degeneracy of the ground state,
the isosteric heat of adsorption of the system, and the effect of the vertical
cell dimension.Comment: 6 pages, 5 pic
Variational Density Matrix Method for Warm Condensed Matter and Application to Dense Hydrogen
A new variational principle for optimizing thermal density matrices is
introduced. As a first application, the variational many body density matrix is
written as a determinant of one body density matrices, which are approximated
by Gaussians with the mean, width and amplitude as variational parameters. The
method is illustrated for the particle in an external field problem, the
hydrogen molecule and dense hydrogen where the molecular, the dissociated and
the plasma regime are described. Structural and thermodynamic properties
(energy, equation of state and shock Hugoniot) are presented.Comment: 26 pages, 13 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev. E, October 199
The generator coordinate method in time-dependent density-functional theory: memory made simple
The generator coordinate (GC) method is a variational approach to the quantum
many-body problem in which interacting many-body wave functions are constructed
as superpositions of (generally nonorthogonal) eigenstates of auxiliary
Hamiltonians containing a deformation parameter. This paper presents a
time-dependent extension of the GC method as a new approach to improve existing
approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) potential in time-dependent
density-functional theory (TDDFT). The time-dependent GC method is shown to be
a conceptually and computationally simple tool to build memory effects into any
existing adiabatic XC potential. As an illustration, the method is applied to
driven parametric oscillations of two interacting electrons in a harmonic
potential (Hooke's atom). It is demonstrated that a proper choice of
time-dependent generator coordinates in conjunction with the adiabatic
local-density approximation reproduces the exact linear and nonlinear
two-electron dynamics quite accurately, including features associated with
double excitations that cannot be captured by TDDFT in the adiabatic
approximation.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figure
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