Evidence for energy regularity in the Mendeleev periodic table

C.H.S. Amador and L.S. Zambrano

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2010, vol. 389, issue 18, 3866-3869

Abstract: We show that the dependence of the total energy of the atoms on their atomic number can follow a q-exponential (as proposed by C. Tsallis), for practically all elements of the periodic table. The result is qualitatively explained in terms of the way the atomic configurations are arranged to minimize energy.

Keywords: Ab-initio simulation of quantum systems; Non-extensive q-entropy; Atomic total energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.05.015

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