Transcription of ground-state density-functional theory into a local thermodynamics.
The concepts of local temperature, local entropy, and local free energy density are introduced within the framework of the ground-state density-functional theory of many-electron systems, and a complete local thermodynamic picture is then developed. A view emerges of the electron cloud, as analogous to a classical inhomogeneous fluid moving under gradients of temperature, pressure, and an effective potential, described by a locally Maxwellian distribution.
D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics