{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:9596407e453034b8","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"In these equations the exchange and correlation portions of the chemical potential of a uniform electron gas appear as additional effective potentials.","quote":"In these equations the exchange and correlation portions of the chemical potential of a uniform electron gas appear as additional effective potentials.","test":"Refuted if an independent derivation or analysis demonstrates that the exchange and correlation effective potentials used in the self‑consistent equations are not obtained from the chemical potential of a uniform electron gas.","source":"doi:10.1103/physrev.140.a1133","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.140.a1133","field":"Physics and Astronomy","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. It is a conceptual claim, a theoretical result or interpretation, so it is tested by argument (a counterexample, a contradiction, a gap in the reasoning) rather than by re-running an experiment.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2230728100","title":"Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects","authors":["Walter Kohn","Lu Jeu Sham"],"authorCount":2,"venue":"Physical Review","year":1965,"type":"article","citedBy":64272,"keywords":["density oscillations","magnetic field","exchange-correlation effects","finite temperature","self-consistent equations","Hartree-Fock equations"],"topic":{"topic":"Advanced Chemical Physics Studies","subfield":"Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics","field":"Physics and Astronomy","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-10T00:16:19.827Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"In the paper's self-consistent equations, a uniform electron gas's exchange and correlation chemical potential terms enter as extra effective potentials.","did":"The authors derived approximation methods theoretically from the Hohenberg-Kohn theory for inhomogeneous interacting electron systems. They also extended the approach to finite temperatures and magnetic fields, and added an appendix on a further correction.","gist":"Building on Hohenberg and Kohn's theory, the paper develops approximate methods for interacting electrons in non-uniform systems, giving Hartree-like self-consistent equations, and extends them to finite temperature and magnetic fields.","meaning":"The claim describes how the interactions between electrons, beyond the simple average (Hartree) picture, are folded into the equations. Exchange and correlation effects are represented by extra effective potentials taken from a uniform electron gas, so the equations keep a form similar to Hartree and Hartree-Fock equations. This gives a practical way to treat many-electron systems whose density varies in space.","findings":["The methods are exact for systems whose density varies slowly or is high.","For the ground state they lead to self-consistent equations analogous to the Hartree and Hartree-Fock equations.","The exchange part of the effective potential differs from Slater's by a factor of 2/3, and finite temperatures and magnetic fields are treated by similar methods."],"terms":[{"term":"chemical potential","means":"The energy change when one particle is added to a system, here applied to a uniform electron gas."},{"term":"exchange and correlation","means":"Quantum effects of electron-electron interaction: exchange arises from the indistinguishability of electrons with the same spin, and correlation from electrons' mutual avoidance beyond that."},{"term":"effective potential","means":"A single combined potential that an electron is treated as moving in, standing in for the influence of the other electrons."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"openalex","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-10T00:16:51.511Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-10T00:16:51.511Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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