Hamiltonian operator solid-state approximation

The electron Hamiltonian (15) describes the so-called orbital exchange coupling in a three-dimensional (3D) crystal lattice. The Pauli matrices, cr O ), have the same properties as the z-component spin operator with S = As a i) represents not a real spin but orbital motion of electrons, it is called pseudo spin. For the respective solid-state 3D-exchange problem, basic concepts and approximations were well developed in physics of magnetic phase transitions. The key approach is the mean-fleld approximation. Similar to (8), it is based on the assumption that fluctuations, s(i) = terms quadratic in s i) can be neglected. We do not go into details here because the respective solution is well-known and discussed in many basic texts of solid state physics (e.g., see [15]). 

The polaron transformation, executed on the Hamiltonian (12.8)-( 12.10) was seen to yield a new Hamiltonian, Eq. (12.15), in which the interstate coupling is renormalized or dressed by an operator that shifts the position coordinates associated with the boson field. This transformation is well known in the solid-state physics literature, however in much of the chemical literature a similar end is achieved via a different route based on the Bom-Oppenheimer (BO) theory of molecular vibronic stmcture (Section 2.5). In the BO approximation, molecular vibronic states are of the form (/) (r,R)x ,v(R) where r and R denote electronic and nuclear coordinates, respectively, R) are eigenfunctions of the electronic Hamiltonian (with corresponding eigenvalues E r ) ) obtained at fixed nuclear coordinates R and... 

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