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City University of New York (CUNY)

2020

Quantal density functional theory

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Schrödinger-Pauli Theory Of Electrons: New Perspectives, Viraht Sahni Oct 2020

Schrödinger-Pauli Theory Of Electrons: New Perspectives, Viraht Sahni

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The Schrödinger-Pauli (SP) theory of electrons in an electromagnetic field explicitly accounts for the electron spin moment. The many-electron theory is complemented via a new descriptive perspective viz. that of the individual electron via its equation of motion or ‘Quantal Newtonian’ first law. The law is in terms of ‘classical’ fields whose sources are quantum mechanical expectation values of Hermitian operators taken with respect to the system wave function. The law states that each electron experiences an external and an internal field, the sum of which vanish. The external field is the sum of the binding electrostatic and a Lorentz …