"""Original bare and screened potential curves; save PNG to cwd. Tested with Python 3.14, NumPy and Matplotlib; see root pyproject.toml. Both curves are normalized model functions, not measured screening data. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): radius = np.linspace(.06, 5, 1200) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6.2, 3.8), facecolor="white") ax.plot(radius, 1/radius, color="#697781", lw=1.8, ls="--", label=r"Bare: $1/r$") ax.plot(radius, np.exp(-radius)/radius, color="#1768ab", lw=2, label="Thomas-Fermi screened") ax.axvline(1, lw=.8, ls=":", color="#aeb7bf") ax.set(xlim=(0, 5), ylim=(0, 6), xlabel=r"$r/\lambda_{\rm TF}$", ylabel=r"$V/[Q/(4\pi\varepsilon_b\lambda_{\rm TF})]$") ax.set_title("One screening length suppresses the potential by a factor e", fontsize=10) ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=10) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / (Path(__file__).stem + ".png"), dpi=125, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()