Homogeneous electron gas in arbitrary dimensions

Abstract

The homogeneous electron gas is one of the most studied model systems in condensed matter physics. It is also at the basis of the large majority of approximations to the functionals of density functional theory. As such, its exchange-correlation energy has been extensively studied, and is well-known for systems of 1, 2, and 3 dimensions. Here, we extend this model and compute the exchange and correlation energy, as a function of the Wigner-Seitz radius $r_s$, for arbitrary dimension $D$. We find a very different behavior for reduced dimensional spaces ($D=1$ and 2), our three dimensional space, and for higher dimensions. In fact, for $D>3$, the leading term of the correlation energy does not depend on the logarithm of $r_s$ (as for $D=3$), but instead scales polynomialy: $-c_D/r_s^{{\gamma }_D}$, with the exponent ${\gamma }_D=(D-3)/(D-1)$. In the large-$D$ limit, the value of $c_D$ is found to depend linearly with the dimension. In this limit, we also find that the concepts of exchange and correlation merge, sharing a common $1/r_s$ dependence.

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