Electron–inert gas pseudopotentials for use in path integral simulations.

A method is devised to obtain an 1=0 pseudopotential for the electron–argon system using the local density functional approximation. The quality of the potential is checked against low-energy scattering data and is found to be good. The method should generalize quite simply to other inert gas–electron and to closed-shell ion–electron systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]