A theoretical study of the static structure and thermodynamics of liquid lithium

Abstract

The authors have studied the static structure and some thermodynamic properties of liquid lithium by using the variational modified hypernetted chain (VMHNC) approximation as the liquid state theory and several effective interatomic pair potentials, derived from different pseudopotentials already proposed in the literature. They also propose a new interatomic pair potential derived from the neutral pseudoatom method (NPA).