Published 1992 | Version v1
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The wave function in multiple scattering theory

  • 1. Metals and Ceramics Div., Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  • 2. Center for Computational Sciences, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)

Description

The wave function in Multiple Scattering Theory (MST) is a locally exact solution to the Schrodinger equation for any l truncation (lmax), except at the muffin-tin boundaries (or cell boundaries in a full cell calculation) where it and its derivative generally have discontinuities. These discontinuities vanish only in the limit lmax → ∞. Furthermore, the MST wave function as usually calculated is not correctly normalized which means the density of states calculated from the Green function does not agree with the calculated from the Lloyd formula. In this paper, the authors obtain an alternative wave function form the usual MST secular equation which is smooth and continuous everywhere and which is correctly normalized

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Materials Research Society.
Imprint Place
Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
ISBN
1-55899-147-6
Imprint Title
Proceedings of applications of multiple scattering theory to materials science
Imprint Pagination
535 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 89-98.

Conference

Title
Annual fall meeting of the Materials Research Society.
Dates
2-6 Dec 1991.
Place
Boston, MA (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
24012549
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
GREEN FUNCTION; MUFFIN-TIN POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POTENTIALS; SCATTERING; WAVE EQUATIONS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-911202--.