Homogeneous Electron Liquid in Arbitrary Dimensions: Exchange and Correlation Using the Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sj\"olander Approach

TL;DR

This paper extends the study of the homogeneous electron liquid to arbitrary dimensions, applying the STLS approach to compute correlation energies beyond RPA and analyzing its accuracy and physicality across dimensions.

Contribution

It generalizes the electron liquid model to arbitrary dimensions and evaluates the STLS method's effectiveness beyond RPA, highlighting its improved physical consistency at high dimensions.

Findings

STLS better satisfies sum rules at high dimensions

Comparison shows STLS provides more physical correlation energies than RPA in higher dimensions

Plasmon contributions are crucial for accurate STLS results

Abstract

The ground states of the homogeneous electron gas and the homogeneous electron liquid are cornerstones in quantum physics and chemistry. They are archetypal systems in the regime of slowly varying densities in which the exchange-correlation energy can be estimated with a myriad of methods. For high densities, the behavior of the energy is well-known for 1, 2, and 3 dimensions. Here, we extend this model to arbitrary integer dimensions, and compute its correlation energy beyond the random phase approximation (RPA), using the celebrated approach developed by Singwi, Tosi, Land, and Sj\"olander (STLS), which is known to be remarkably accurate in the description of the full electronic density response for $2D$ and $3D$, both in the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic ground states. For higher dimensions, we compare the results obtained for the correlation energy using the STLS method with the values previously obtained using RPA. We found that at high dimensions STLS tends to be more physical in the sense that the infamous sum rules are better satisfied by the theory. We furthermore illustrate the importance of the plasmon contribution to STLS theory.