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Title: Exchange-correlation contributions to thermodynamic properties of the homogeneous electron gas from a cumulant Green's function approach

Journal Article · · Physical Review B

Thermodynamic properties of the interacting homogeneous electron gas are calculated using a finite-temperature cumulant Green's function approach over a broad range of densities and temperatures up to the warm dense matter regime $$T ~ T_F$$, where $$T_F$$ is the Fermi degeneracy temperature. These properties can be separated into independent particle and exchange-correlation contributions, and our focus here is on the latter. In this work our approach is based on the Galitskii-Migdal-Koltun and electron number sum rules from the finite temperature many-body Green's function formalism, together with an extension of the cumulant Green's function to finite temperature. Previously this approach yielded exchange-correlation energies and potentials in good agreement with quantum Monte-Carlo calculations. Here the method is extended for various thermodynamic quantities including the chemical potential, total energy, Helmholtz free-energy, electronic equation of state, specific heat, and isothermal compressibility, which optionally include spin dependence. We find that the exchange-correlation contributions are weakly varying at low temperature but exhibit significant temperature dependence in the WDM regime, as well as a crossover from exchange- to correlation-dominated behavior. In contrast to the $T = 0^+$ limit, we also find that renormalization effects are largely but not completely suppressed at finite temperature. Comparisons with other approaches at various levels of approximation are also discussed.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-97ER45623
OSTI ID:
1800947
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 19; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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