“Atom” as a complex system: One- and two-dimensional cellular automata simulations
✍ Scribed by Harjinder Singh; N. Sukumar; B. M. Deb
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 491 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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✦ Synopsis
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One-and two-dimensional cellular automata (CAI simulations of neutral "atoms," viewed as "complex" distributions of electron density around a central nucleus, are performed in order to explore CA-based discretized and connectionist approaches to the synthesis and structure-dynamics problems of many-electron systems. A link between CA and the quantum mechanics of atoms is made ~y taking the Thomas-Fermi theory as an illustrative example. Starting from a nonstationary distribution, the stationary distribution of electron density around a nucleus arises out of a natural stability criterion described through CA rules.