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Before the unique spectral features of copper in proteins can be discussed, the geometric and electronic structures of normal copper must be considered. In an octahedral environment the cupric ion, which has nine d electrons, would possess a degenerate 2Eg electronic ground state (Fig. 1, left). A geometric distortion which removes this degeneracy would produce a more stable electronic structure, in accordance with the Jahn-Teller 

Several techniques allow further elucidation of the information contained in an EPR spectrum. Through single-crystal EPR it is possible to determine the orientations of the g and A tensors relative both to each other and to the internal coordinates of a structurally defined active site. The use of several microwave frequencies can be particularly informative. While the spectrum shown in Fig. 2 (middle) was taken with an X-band spectrometer (u = 9 GHz), Q-band (v 35 GHz) and S-band (u = 3 GHz) should also be employed. The high microwave frequency leads to increased resolution by spreading the g values over a wider magnetic field range with little effect on hyperfine splitting. Low 

On the other hand the more rdSned Debye model gives 

On the contrary if we are interested in the excited states the one particle model fails completely since the excitation energy increases with V (cf. 18.1.3). At sufficiently low temperatures only the collective modes are excited and contribute to the entropy as well as to the specific heat. For this reason the Einstein model underestimates by far tfie specific heat and one has to use the Debye model to obtain a correct orda of magnitude. 

The example which has been briefly considered was limited to harmonic forces. Another example is a chain of hard spheres. This is a one-dimmsional system of the kind studied in Ch. VI. The zero-point energy of this tem may be calculated exactly and is foimd to be (Nagamiya [1940]) 

The result (18.3.4) includes what we have called collective and individual motions. Let us now consider a ceil model for hard spheres (cf. Prigogine [1954] ). Here each particle is allowed to move freely along some characteristic free length If. According to an elementary result of quantum theory, the corresponding zero point energy is 

The question is now to specify the value of this free length , that is the limits of the cell. If we take simply the mean geometrical length I and substract the diameter a, we obtain 

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Aufbau principle In building up the electronic configuration of an atom or a molecule in its ground state, the electrons are placed in the orbitals in order of increasing energy. 

Hund s rules Rules which describe the electronic configuration of degenerate orbitals in the ground state. The electronic configuration will have the maximum number of unpaired... 

Mosshauer effect The resonance fluorescence by y-radiation of an atomic nucleus, returning from an excited state to the ground state. The resonance energy is characteristic of the chemical environment of the nucleus and Mossbauer spectroscopy may be used to yield information about this chemical environment. Used particularly in the study of Fe. Sn and Sb compounds. 

Surface heterogeneity may be inferred from emission studies such as those studies by de Schrijver and co-workers on P and on R adsorbed on clay minerals [197,198]. In the case of adsorbed pyrene and its derivatives, there is considerable evidence for surface mobility (on clays, metal oxides, sulfides), as from the work of Thomas [199], de Mayo and co-workers [200], Singer [201] and Stahlberg et al. [202]. There has also been evidence for ground-state bimolecular association of adsorbed pyrene [66,203]. The sensitivity of pyrene to the polarity of its environment allows its use as a probe of surface polarity [204,205]. Pyrene or ofter emitters may be used as probes to study the structure of an adsorbate film, as in the case of Triton X-100 on silica [206], sodium dodecyl sulfate at the alumina surface [207] and hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride adsorbed onto silver electrodes from water and dimethylformamide [208]. In all cases progressive structural changes were concluded to occur with increasing surfactant adsorption. 

In the case of Ru(2,2 -bipyridine)3 adsorbed on porous Vycor glass, it was inferred that structural perturbation occurs in the excited state, R, but not in the ground state [209]. 

Figure Al.1.1. Wavefimctions for the four lowest states of the hamronie oseillator, ordered from the n = Q ground state (at the bottom) to tire u = 3 state (at the top). The vertieal displaeement of the plots is ehosen so that the loeation of the elassieal turning points are those that eoineide with the superimposed potential fimetion (dotted line). Note that the number of nodes in eaeh state eorresponds to the assoeiated quantum number.

The energy level spectrum of the hamionic oscillator is completely regular. The ground state energy is given... 

The one-dimensional cases discussed above illustrate many of die qualitative features of quantum mechanics, and their relative simplicity makes them quite easy to study. Motion in more than one dimension and (especially) that of more than one particle is considerably more complicated, but many of the general features of these systems can be understood from simple considerations. Wliile one relatively connnon feature of multidimensional problems in quantum mechanics is degeneracy, it turns out that the ground state must be non-degenerate. To prove this, simply assume the opposite to be true, i.e. 

In order to satisfy equation (A 1.1.5 6), the two fiinctions must have identical signs at some points in space and different signs elsewhere. It follows that at least one of them must have at least one node. However, this is incompatible with the nodeless property of ground-state eigenfiinctions. 

It should be mentioned that the single-particle Flamiltonians in general have an infinite number of solutions, so that an uncountable number of wavefiinctions [/ can be generated from them. Very often, interest is focused on the ground state of many-particle systems. Within the independent-particle approximation, this state can be represented by simply assigning each particle to the lowest-lying energy level. If a calculation is... 

In an orthonomial basis,. S. = 1 if k=j, and vanishes otherwise. The problem of finding the variational energy of the ground state then reduces to that of detemiining the smallest value of e that satisfies... 

To illustrate the use of the variational prineiple, results are presented here for ealeulations of the five lowest energy states (the ground state and the first four exeited states) of a partiele subjeet to the potential... 

Figure Al.1.4. Wavefimctions for the four lowest states of the double-well oseillator. The ground-state wavefiinetion is at the bottom and the others are ordered from bottom to top in tenns of inereasing energy.

Figure Al.1.5. Ground state wavefimetion of the double-well oseillator, as obtained in a variational ealeulation usmg eight basis funetions eentred at the origin. Note the spurious oseillatory behaviour near the origin and the loeation of the peak maxima, both of whieh are well inside the potential minima.

Note that h is simply the diagonal matrix of zeroth-order eigenvalues In the following, it will be assumed that the zeroth-order eigenfunction a reasonably good approximation to the exact ground-state wavefiinction (meaning that Xfi , and h and v will be written in the compact representations... 

The off-diagonal elements in this representation of h and v are the zero vector of lengtii (for h) and matrix elements which couple the zeroth-order ground-state eigenfunction members of the set q (for v) ... 

The exact ground-state eigenvalue and corresponding eigenvector... 

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