Scaling behavior of the Compton profile of alkali metals

Sekania, Michael; Appelt, Wilhelm H.; Benea, Diana; Ebert, Hubert; Vollhardt, Dieter and Chioncel, Liviu (2018): Scaling behavior of the Compton profile of alkali metals. In: Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, Vol. 489: pp. 18-27

Abstract

The contribution of the valence electrons to the Compton profiles of the crystalline alkali metals is calculated using density functional theory. We show that the Compton profiles can be modeled by a q-Gaussian distribution, which is characterized by an anisotropic, element dependent parameter q. Thereby we derive an unexpected scaling behavior of the Compton profiles of all alkali metals.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• Language: English