pseudopotential
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thumb|300px|Comparison of a wavefunction in the Coulomb potential of the nucleus (blue) to the one in the pseudopotential (red). The real and the pseudo wavefunction and potentials match above a certain cutoff radius r_c.
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Atomic physics
- Norm-conserving pseudopotential
- Ultrasoft pseudopotentials
- Fermi pseudopotential
- Phillips pseudopotential
- See also
- References
- Pseudopotential libraries
- Further reading
thumb|300px|Comparison of a wavefunction in the Coulomb potential of the nucleus (blue) to the one in the pseudopotential (red). The real and the pseudo wavefunction and potentials match above a certain cutoff radius r_c.
In physics, a pseudopotential or effective potential is used as an approximation for the simplified description of complex systems. Applications include atomic physics and neutron scattering. The pseudopotential approximation was first introduced by Hans Hellmann in 1934.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pseudopotential” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.