Towards the extrapolation of the valence-valence electron partial structure factor for liquid Mg near freezing from a combination of theory and experiment

Egelstaff, March, and McGill (1973) proposed the extraction of electron correlationfunctions in liquids from scattering data. Here, we appeal to computer simulationby de Wijs et al. (1995) on the partial structure factor Siv(k) between ions (i) andvalence electrons (v) for liquid Mg near freezing, to write the valence-valence partialstructure factor Svv(k) in terms of Siv(k) and the neutron structure factor Sii(k), tohigh accuracy.