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The packing itself may consist of spherical, cylindrical, or randomly shaped pellets, wire screens or gauzes, crushed particles, or a variety of other physical configurations. The particles usually are 0.25 to 1.0 cm in diameter. The structure of the catalyst pellets is such that the internal surface area far exceeds the superficial (external) surface area, so that the contact area is, in principle, independent of pellet size. To make effective use of the internal surface area, one must use a pellet size that minimizes diffusional resistance within the catalyst pellet but that also gives rise to an appropriate pressure drop across the catalyst bed. Some considerations which are important in the handling and use of catalysts for fixed bed operation in industrial situations are discussed in the Catalyst Handbook (1). 

Although in many cases, particularly in PE spectroscopy, single configurations or Slater determinants 2d> (M+ ) were shown to yield heuristically useful descriptions of the corresponding spectroscopic states 2 f i(M+ ), this is not generally true because the independent particle approximation (which implies that a many-electron wavefunction can be approximated by a single product of one-electron wavefunctions, i.e. MOs 4>, as represented by a Slater determinant 2 j) may break down in some cases. As this becomes particularly evident in polyene radical cations, it seems appropriate to briefly elaborate on methods which allow one to overcome the limitations of single-determinant models. 

There are many ways to improve this independent-particle model by incorporating electron correlation in the spatial part Hylleraas function [Hyl29] and the method of configuration interaction (Cl) will be used as illustrations. 

The other approach most frequently used to describe a correlated wavefunction beyond the independent-particle model is based on configuration interaction (Cl). (If the expansion is made on grounds of other basis sets, the approach is often called superposition of configurations, SOC, in order to distinguish it from the Cl method.) According to the general principles of quantum mechanics, the exact wavefunction which is a solution of the full Hamiltonian H can be obtained as an expansion in any complete set of basis functions which have the same symmetry properties ... 

Approximations towards the Cooper-Zare model The formulations so far have been rather general, and in the following they will be reduced to the formulations in the independent-particle approximation. First, the Dy are replaced by Dy which leads to the formulation of a and / in the Jij J-coupling case (see [WWa73]). Because only one electron configuration is present in Dy, such a dipole matrix element can be reduced further into the... 

In an independent particle picture, one has a discrete state, like 3p 3d + interacting with the continnum 3d ef, ep. Configuration interaction mixes the discrete state, which loses its separate existence, in the continnum. The transition moment... 

Each j subspace is spanned by a complete set of independent-particle configurations. A configuration is a state in the product space of N one-electron states. The one-electron states p) are solutions of one-electron problems. It is obviously sensible to choose a one-electron problem to produce states that are closely related to the states of an electron in the interacting system. For example, bound states should occupy roughly the same volume of coordinate space as the atom. How to choose the bound states will be left until chapter 5. For the purpose of the present discussion the word orbital will refer to a one-electron state. 

Many-body structure calculations are done in terms of one-electron states I a), which we call orbitals to distinguish them from the states of the IV-electron system. One-electron states are discussed in chapter 4. The simplest states in the A/ -electron space are independent-particle configurations Ip) whose coordinate—spin representation consists of antisymmetric products (determinants) of orbitals. The coordinate—spin representation of a normalised configuration p) is... 

A configuration in the independent-particle model may be of either the closed-shell or open-shell type. In the former the N electrons occupy all the orbitals of the lowest-energy sets with the same symmetry and principal quantum number , called shells. In the latter some orbitals with particular values of the projection quantum numbers are unoccupied. The... 

Until quite recently the role of a—n correlation effects was ignored in the. theoretical treatment of electronic transitions. Even now, nearly all ab initio calculations of excitation phenomena are based on independent-particle models using a minimal basis set of atomic orbitals, or involve a configuration interaction limited to the sr-electron system. In order to go far enough beyond the o—n separation, two improvements have to be simultaneously considered ... 

The extension of the basis can improve wave functions and energies up to the Hartree-Fock limit, that is, a sufficiently extended basis can circumvent the LCAO approximation and lead to the best molecular orbitals for ground states. However, this is still in the realm of the independent-particle approximation 175>, and the use of single Slater-determinant wave functions in the study of potential surfaces implies the assumption that correlation energy remains approximately constant on that part of the surface where reaction pathways develop. In cases when this assumption cannot be accepted, extensive configuration interaction (Cl) must be included. A detailed comparison of SCF and Cl results is available for the potential energy surface for the reaction F + H2-FH+H 47 ). 

The interpretation of these autoionizing excited states even from the outset recognized the inadequacy of the independent-particle picture.2 To account for the number of observed series and their intensities, it was necessary to invoke strong mixing of configurations, each with its own individual-particle quantum numbers. To obtain even a minimally satisfactory description of the... 

Several approaches were pursued in the process of finding an interpretation more physically intuitive than the somewhat hollow, ex post facto interpretation of Eq. (1), that is, that the independent-particle picture represented by a single configuration is spoiled by electron-electron correlation, particularly by angular correlation, because the second configuration leaves the radial distribution relatively unaffected but changes the angular distribution. 

There are cases for which more than one solution is found, and it is possible that both may possess physical reality under certain conditions [12] (this will arise again in chapter 11). Furthermore, the Hartree-Fock method can be made multiconfigurational, i.e. several configurations can be mixed or superposed. An electron is then shared between different states, which goes beyond the independent particle approximation. The self-consistent method allows the mixing coefficients to be determined, but the configurations to be included must be specified at the outset, and there is no simple prescription as to which ones should be chosen or left out. 

The simultaneous excitation of two electrons by a single photon is a process rigorously forbidden within the independent particle model. The next stage in the breakdown of the independent electron model goes beyond the slight breakdown of the SEA discussed in the previous section. It arises when the term in the excited state is different from the one expected and one has a configuration in the excited state which is not allowed by the normal dipole selection rules. We then have a double or multiple excitation, in which more than one electron effects a transition from one configuration to another. 

The above is only a rough outline of how excited states of molecules are estimated. In practice, configuration interaction is required, as the most appropriate orbitals to describe the excited states are not those of the ground state, and one must include the correlated motions of the electrons that are not included in the Hartree-Fock independent particle SCF procedure[9]. 

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