Electron models

Arguments based on a free electron model can be made to explain the conductivity of a metal. It can be shown that the k will evolve following a Newtonian law [1] ... 

Another important accomplislnnent of the free electron model concerns tire heat capacity of a metal. At low temperatures, the heat capacity of a metal goes linearly with the temperature and vanishes at absolute zero. This behaviour is in contrast with classical statistical mechanics. According to classical theories, the equipartition theory predicts that a free particle should have a heat capacity of where is the Boltzmann constant. An ideal gas has a heat capacity consistent with tliis value. The electrical conductivity of a metal suggests that the conduction electrons behave like free particles and might also have a heat capacity of 3/fg,... 

The resolution of this issue is based on the application of the Pauli exclusion principle and Femii-Dirac statistics. From the free electron model, the total electronic energy, U, can be written as... 

Simple metals like alkalis, or ones with only s and p valence electrons, can often be described by a free electron gas model, whereas transition metals and rare earth metals which have d and f valence electrons camiot. Transition metal and rare earth metals do not have energy band structures which resemble free electron models. The fonned bonds from d and f states often have some strong covalent character. This character strongly modulates the free-electron-like bands. 

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Cl calculations can be used to improve the quality of the wave-function and state energies. Self-consistent field (SCF) level calculations are based on the one-electron model, wherein each electron moves in the average field created by the other n-1 electrons in the molecule. Actually, electrons interact instantaneously and therefore have a natural tendency to avoid each other beyond the requirements of the Exclusion Principle. This correlation results in a lower average interelectronic repulsion and thus a lower state energy. The difference between electronic energies calculated at the SCF level versus the exact nonrelativistic energies is the correlation energy. 

In addition to dielectric property determinations, one also can measure valence electron densities from the low-loss spectrum. Using the simple free electron model one can show that the bulk plasmon energy E is governed by the equation ... 

The physical description of strongly pressure dependent magnetic properties is the object of considerable study. Edwards and Bartel [74E01] have performed the more recent physical evaluation of strong pressure and composition dependence of magnetization in their work on cobalt and manganese substituted invars. Their work contrasts models based on a localized-electron model with a modified Zener model in which both localized- and itinerant-electron effects are incorporated in a unified model. Their work favors the latter model. 

Imagine a model hydrogen molecule with non-interacting electrons, such that their Coulomb repulsion is zero. Each electron in our model still has kinetic energy and is still attracted to both nuclei, but the electron motions are completely independent of each other because the electron-electron interaction term is zero. We would, therefore, expect that the electronic wavefunction for the pair of electrons would be a product of the wavefunctions for two independent electrons in H2+ (Figure 4.1), which I will write X(rO and F(r2). Thus X(ri) and T(r2) are molecular orbitals which describe independently the two electrons in our non-interacting electron model. 

One of the earliest models for treating conjugated molecules is afforded by the Hiickel rr-electron model. This dates from the work of E. Hiickel in 1931. The ideas are simple and appealing, and the model enjoyed many years of successful application to individual molecules, molecular clusters and solids. 

In the Hiickel TT-electron model, ethene is a two-electron problem. 1 have numbered the carbon atoms C and Cj, and X is centred on Ci with X2 on Cj. The HF matrix becomes... 

Notice molecular symmetry at work. The Huckel rr-electron model is in many ways a blunt instrument, because we would get exactly the same answers for either of the following possible conformers of hexatriene (Figure 7.3). 

The Huckel rr-electron model uses information about what is bonded to what (i.e. the connectivity) but does not cater for molecular geometries. 

How does the Hiickel ff-electron model deal with pyridine Nitrogen is more electronegative than carbon, so the N atom ought to have a higher (more negative) T-electron charge than a carbon atom in benzene. It is conventional to write the heteroatom (X and Y are used to denote heteroatoms such as N and O) parameters in terms of the standard ac and yScc... 

The Extended Hiickel model treats all valence electrons within the spirit of the TT-electron model. Each molecular orbital is written as an LCAO expansion of the valence orbitals, which can be thought of as being Slater-type orbitals (to look ahead to Chapter 9). Slater-type orbitals are very similar to hydrogenic ones except that they do not have radial nodes. Once again we can understand the model best by considering the HF-LCAO equations... 

The next step came in the 1950s, with more serious attempts to include formally the effect of electron repulsion between the valence electrons. First came the jT-electron models associated with the name of Pople, and with Pariser and Parr. You might like to read the synopses of their first papers. 

In the TT-electron theories, each first-row atom contributes a single basis function. For the all valence electron models there is now an additional complication in at some of the basis functions could be on the same atomic centre. So how should we treat integrals involving basis functions all on the same atomic centre such as... 

It is traditional to divide quantum-mechanical molecular models into three broad bands depending on their degree of sophistication. There are sublevels within each band, and a great deal of jargon accompanied by acronyms. Many authors speak of the level of theory . The Hiickel independent electron model of Chapter 7 typifies the lowest level of theory, and authors sometimes refer to these models as empirical . The Hamiltonian is not rigorously defined, and neither are the basis functions. Nevertheless, these models have been able to produce impressive predictions and rationalizations. 

Slater s Xa method is now regarded as so much history, but it gave an important stepping stone towards modem density functional theory. In Chapter 12, I discussed the free-electron model of the conduction electrons in a solid. The electrons were assumed to occupy a volume of space that we identified with the dimensions of the metal under smdy, and the electrons were taken to be non-interacting. 

Electrons do of course interact with each other through their mutual Coulomb electrostatic potential, so an alternative step to greater sophistication might be to allow electron repulsion into the free-electron model. We therefore start again from the free-electron model but allow for the Coulomb repulsion between the electrons. We don t worry about the fermion nature of electrons at this point. 

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The new quantum mechanics contradicts this independent electron model as it is often called. In Heisenberg s formulation of quantum mechanics the fundamental equation is,... 

It is difficult to point to the basic reason why the average-potential model is not better applicable to metallic solutions. Shimoji60 believes that a Lennard-Jones 6-12 potential is not adequate for metals and that a Morse potential would give better results when incorporated in the same kind of model. On the other hand, it is possible that the main trouble is that metal solutions do not obey a theorem of corresponding states. More specifically, the interaction eAB(r) may not be expressible by the same function as for the pure components because the solute is so strongly modified by the solvent. This point of view is supported by considerations of the electronic models of metal solutions.46 The idea that the solvent strongly modifies the solute metal is reached also through a consideration of the quasi-chemical theory applied to dilute solutions. This is the topic that we consider next. 

Araki, G., and Araki, H., Progr. Theoret. Phys. [Kyoto) 11, 20, Interaction between electrons in one-dimensional free-electron model with application to absorption spectra of cyanine dyes. ... 

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The relevant Hamiltonian for the gas-phase solute molecules can be treated by the same three-orbitals four-electron model used in Chapter 2. Since the energy of 3 is much higher than that of , and d>2 (see Table 2.4), we represent the system by its two lowest energy resonance structures, using now the notation fa and fa as is done in eq. (2.40). The energies of these two effective configurations are now written as... 

The Lewis model of the chemical bond assumes that each bonding electron pair is located between the two bonded atoms—it is a localized electron model. However, we know from the wave-particle duality of the electron (Sections 1.5-1.7) that the location of an electron in an atom cannot be described in terms of a precise position, but only in terms of the probability of finding it somewhere in a region of... 

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