Hamiltonian operator perturbing

The Hamiltonian operator perturbed by nuclear coordinate q and electric field f may be presented as follows [182]... 

Each electron in the system is assigned to either molecule A or B, and Hamiltonian operators and for each molecule defined in tenns of its assigned electrons. The unperturbed Hamiltonian for the system is then 0 = - A perturbation XH consists of tlie Coulomb interactions between the nuclei and... 

Yarkoni [108] developed a computational method based on a perturbative approach [109,110], He showed that in the near vicinity of a conical intersection, the Hamiltonian operator may be written as the sum a nonperturbed Hamiltonian Hq and a linear perturbative temr. The expansion is made around a nuclear configuration Q, at which an intersection between two electronic wave functions takes place. The task is to find out under what conditions there can be a crossing at a neighboring nuclear configuration Qy. The diagonal Hamiltonian matrix elements at Qy may be written as... 

Her and Plesset proposed an alternative way to tackle the problem of electron correlation tiler and Plesset 1934], Their method is based upon Rayleigh-Schrddinger perturbation 3ty, in which the true Hamiltonian operator is expressed as the sum of a zeroth-er Hamiltonian (for which a set of molecular orbitals can be obtained) and a turbation, "V ... 

The spin Hamiltonian operates only on spin wavefunctions, and all details of the electronic wavefunction are absorbed into the coupling constant a. If we treat the Fermi contact term as a perturbation on the wavefunction theR use of standard perturbation theory gives a first-order energy... 

However, there also exists a third possibility. By using a famous relation due to Dirac, the relativistic effects can be (in a nonunique way) divided into spin-independent and spin-dependent terms. The former are collectively called scalar relativistic effects and the latter are subsumed under the name spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The scalar relativistic effects can be straightforwardly included in the one-electron Hamiltonian operator h. Unless the investigated elements are very heavy, this recovers the major part of the distortion of the orbitals due to relativity. The SOC terms may be treated in a second step by perturbation theory. This is the preferred way of approaching molecular properties and only breaks down in the presence of very heavy elements or near degeneracy of the investigated electronic state. 

Perturbation theory provides a procedure for finding approximate solutions to the Schrodinger equation for a system which differs only slightly from a system for which the solutions are known. The Hamiltonian operator H for the system of interest is given by... 

The operator k is called the perturbation and is small. Thus, the operator k differs only slightly from and the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of k do not differ greatly from those of the unperturbed Hamiltonian operator k The parameter X is introduced to facilitate the comparison of the orders of magnitude of various terms. In the limit A 0, the perturbed system reduces to the unperturbed system. For many systems there are no terms in the perturbed Hamiltonian operator higher than k and for convenience the parameter A in equations (9.16) and (9.17) may then be set equal to unity. 

In many applications there is no second-order term in the perturbed Hamiltonian operator so that zero. In such cases each unperturbed... 

The Hamiltonian operator for the unperturbed harmonic oscillator is given by equation (4.12) and its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are shown in equations (4.30) and (4.41). The perturbation H is... 

Higher-order terms. .. in the perturbed Hamiltonian operator do... 

We regard the term e jr 2 in the Hamiltonian operator as a perturbation, so that... 

In reality, this term is not small in comparison with the other terms so we should not expect the perturbation technique to give accurate results. With this choice for the perturbation, the Schrodinger equation for the unperturbed Hamiltonian operator may be solved exactly. 

Perturbation terms in the Hamiltonian operator up to still lead to the uncoupling of the nuclear and electronic motions, but change the form of the electronic potential energy funetion in the equation for the nuclear motion. Rather than present the details of the Bom-Oppenheimer perturbation expansion, we follow instead the equivalent, but more elegant procedure of M. Bom and K. Huang (1954). 

There is no proper perturbative basis for the mnemonic diagram in Fig. 3.58, because the non-orthogonal unperturbed orbitals cannot correspond to any physical (Hermitian) unperturbed Hamiltonian operator,79 as illustrated in Examples 3.17 and 3.18 below. The PMO interpretation of Fig. 3.58 therefore rests on an nnphysical starting point. Removal of orbital overlap (to restore Hermiticity) eliminates the supposed effect. 80... 

The actual form of the Hamiltonian operator hp does not have to be defined at this moment. As in standard perturbation theory, it is assumed that the solution of the electronic structure problem of the combined Hamiltonian HKS +HP can be described as the solution y/(0) of HKS, corrected by a small additional linear-response wavefunction /b//(,). Only these response orbitals will explicitly depend on time - they will follow the oscillations of the external perturbation and adopt its time dependency. Thus, the following Ansatz is made for the solution of the perturbed Hamiltonian HKS +HP ... 

The perturbation method is a unique method to determine the correlation energy of the system. Here the Hamiltonian operator consists of two parts, //0 and H, where //0 is the unperturbed Hamiltonian and // is the perturbation term. The perturbation method always gives corrections to the solutions to various orders. The Hamiltonian for the perturbed system is... 

The solution of the unperturbed Hamiltonian operator forms a complete orthonormal set. The perturbed Schrodinger equation is given by... 

So far we have assumed that the electronic structure of the crystal consists of one band derived, in our approximation, from a single atomic state. In general, this will not be a realistic picture. The metals, for example, have a complicated system of overlapping bands derived, in our approximation, from several atomic states. This means that more than one atomic orbital has to be associated with each crystal atom. When this is done, it turns out that even the equations for the one-dimensional crystal cannot be solved directly. However, the mathematical technique developed by Baldock (2) and Koster and Slater (S) can be applied (8) and a formal solution obtained. Even so, the question of the existence of otherwise of surface states in real crystals is diflBcult to answer from theoretical considerations. For the simplest metals, i.e., the alkali metals, for which a one-band model is a fair approximation, the problem is still difficult. The nature of the difficulty can be seen within the framework of our simple model. In the first place, the effective one-electron Hamiltonian operator is really different for each electron. If we overlook this complication and use some sort of mean value for this operator, the operator still contains terms representing the interaction of the considered electron with all other electrons in the crystal. The Coulomb part of this interaction acts in such a way as to reduce the effect of the perturbation introduced by the existence of a free surface. A self-consistent calculation is therefore essential, and the various parameters in our theory would have to be chosen in conformity with the results of such a calculation. 

The total binding energy of a NFE metal can be evaluated within second-order perturbation theory. In the presence of a perturbation fi to the Hamiltonian operator of a system, the energy of state is given by... 

Another way that additional configurations can be added to the the ground-state wave function is by the use of Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (MPPT). As it happens, a Hamiltonian operator constructed from a sum of Fock operators has as its set of solutions the HF single determinantal wave function and all other determinantal wave... 

Let us now examine the application of perturbation theory to the particular case of the Hamiltonian operator and the energy. 

Equation (9.32) is also useful to the extent it suggests die general way in which various spectral properties may be computed. The energy of a system represented by a wave function is computed as the expectation value of the Hamiltonian operator. So, differentiation of the energy with respect to a perturbation is equivalent to differentiation of the expectation value of the Hamiltonian. In the case of first derivatives, if the energy of the system is minimized with respect to the coefficients defining die wave function, the Hellmann-Feynman theorem of quantum mechanics allows us to write... 

H is the Hamiltonian operator for the total energy, h = Planck s constant / 2tc, t is the time, and is the wave function describing the electronic state. The electric field of the light adds another contribution to the Hamiltonian. Assuming that all the molecules are isolated polarization units, the perturbation part of the Hamilitonian is the electric dipole operator, -p E. Thus,... 

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