{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:ba97f1491b1d0bf8","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"These methods are exact for systems of slowly varying or high density.","quote":"These methods are exact for systems of slowly varying or high density.","test":"Refuted if a system with sufficiently high density or slowly varying density can be shown—by an independent calculation or experiment—to yield a result from these methods that differs from the exact solution beyond statistical or numerical uncertainty.","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. 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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":"The approximation methods developed for interacting electrons are exact in the limits of slowly varying electron density or very high density.","did":"The authors developed approximation methods theoretically, starting from a theory of Hohenberg and Kohn, for inhomogeneous systems of interacting electrons. They also extended them to finite temperatures and magnetic fields.","gist":"Building on Hohenberg and Kohn's theory, the paper derives approximate, self-consistent equations for interacting electrons in an uneven density, including exchange and correlation effects.","meaning":"Electrons in atoms, molecules and solids repel one another, which makes exact calculations extremely hard. The claim sets out where the new approximations are exact: when the electron density changes only gradually across space, or when the density is very high. Those limits give the methods a clear anchor, and the same framework underlies the self-consistent equations the paper presents.","findings":["For the ground state, the methods lead to self-consistent equations analogous to the Hartree and Hartree-Fock equations.","The exchange and correlation parts of the chemical potential of a uniform electron gas appear as additional effective potentials.","The exchange part of the effective potential differs from Slater's by a factor of 2/3."],"terms":[{"term":"inhomogeneous system","means":"A system in which the electron density varies from place to place rather than being the same everywhere."},{"term":"slowly varying density","means":"An electron density that changes only gradually over distances comparable to the spacing between electrons."},{"term":"high density","means":"A situation where electrons are packed closely together, so that their kinetic energy dominates over their mutual interactions."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"openalex","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-10T00:31:44.927Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-10T00:31:44.927Z","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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