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document the Debye-Huckel screening
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zingale committed Jan 21, 2025
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weak screening regime, :math:`\Gamma < 0.1`, and strong screening regime,
:math:`1 \lesssim \Gamma \lesssim 160`.

* ``debye_huckel`` :

This is just the Debye-Hückel weak-screening limit from
:cite:`chugunov:2009`.

While it can be used on its own (by building with
``SCREEN_METHOD=debye_huckel``, it is really meant to be used as a
test to determine whether a more extensive screening approximation
should be used. By setting ``screening.enable_debye_huckel_skip``,
we first compute this weak-screening approximation and then, if it
is larger than ``screening.debye_huckel_skip_threshold``, the full
screening factor is computed (using the method specified via
``SCREEN_METHOD``).

* ``null`` :

This disables screening by always returning 1 for the screening
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