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Quantum Mechanical Description of the Electron Gas

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Fundamentals of Inelastic Electron Scattering
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In the following, the electron gas is described in terms of increasingly accurate approximations.

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Schattschneider, P. (1986). Quantum Mechanical Description of the Electron Gas. In: Fundamentals of Inelastic Electron Scattering. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8866-8_7

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