pseudopotential
pseudopotential
[‚sü·də·pə′ten·chəl] (solid-state physics)
The common effective potential for electrons in a crystal lattice that is calculated in the orthogonalized plane-wave method and in the pseudopotential method, and that is relatively weak (except for diffracted electrons) because the electrons are moving rapidly past the atoms in the lattice.
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