Interacting Electrons

One can utilize some very simple cases to illustrate this approach. Suppose one considers a solution for non-interacting electrons i.e. in equation A1.3.1 the last temi in the Hamiltonian is ignored. In diis limit, it is... 

Perhaps the simplest description of a condensed matter system is to imagine non-interacting electrons contained within a box of volume, Q. The Scln-ddinger equation for this system is similar to equation Al.3.9 with the potential set to zero ... 

EM instmments can be distinguished by the way the infonnation, i.e. the interacting electrons, is detected. Figure Bl.17.2 shows the typical situations for TEM, STEM, and SEM. For TEM the transmitted electron beam of the brightfield illumination is imaged simply as in an light microscope, using the objective and... 

In SEM and STEM, all detectors record the electron current signal of tire selected interacting electrons (elastic scattering, secondary electrons) in real time. Such detectors can be designed as simple metal-plate detectors, such as the elastic dark-field detector in STEM, or as electron-sensitive PMT. For a rigorous discussion of SEM detectors see [3],... 

In DFT, the electronic density rather than the wavefiinction is tire basic variable. Flohenberg and Kohn showed [24] that all the observable ground-state properties of a system of interacting electrons moving in an external potential are uniquely dependent on the charge density p(r) that minimizes the system s total... 

Kolm and Sham [25] decompose G[p] into the kinetic energy of an analogous set of non-interacting electrons with the same density p(r) as the interacting system. 

The interacting electrons are energized by acceleration in an electric field before they interact with molecules to produce ions. 

Most adsorption processes are exothermic (AH is negative). Adsorption processes involving nonspecific interactions are referred to as physical adsorption, a relatively weak, reversible interaction. Processes with stronger interactions (electron transfer) are termed chemisorption. Chemisorption is often irreversible and has higher heat of adsorption than physical adsorption. Most dispersants function by chemisorption, in contrast to surfactants, which... 

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. 

Our treatment so far has dealt with non-interacting electrons, yet we know for sure that electrons do interact with each other. Dirac (1930b) studied the effects of exchange interactions on the Thomas-Fermi model, and he soon discovered that this effect could be modelled by adding an extra term... 

The subscript S denotes tiiat it is the kinetic energy calculated from a Slater determinant. The A = 1 case corresponds to interacting electrons, and eq. (6.4) is therefore only an approximation to the real kinetic energy, but a substantial improvement over the TF formula (eq. (6.2)). 

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Figure 6.14c shows the electron backdonation interaction (electrons are transferred from the Fermi level of the metal to the hybridized 27t molecular orbital which was originally empty, thus this is, by definition, a backdonation interaction). 

Figure 6.14d shows the electron donation interaction (electrons are transferred from the initially fully occupied 5a molecular orbitals to the Fermi level of the metal, thus this is an electron donation interaction). Blyholder was first to discuss that CO chemisorption on transition metal involves both donation and backdonation of electrons.4 We now know both experimentally7 and theoretically96,98 that the electron backdonation mechanism is usually predominant, so that CO behaves on most transition metal surfaces as an overall electron acceptor. 

A key to the application of DFT in handling the interacting electron gas was given by Kohn and Sham [51] who used the variational principle implied by the minimal properties of the energy functional to derive effective singleparticle Schrodinger equations. The functional F[ ] can be split into four parts ... 

Thus the interacting multi-electron system can be simulated by the noninteracting electrons under the influence of the effective potential l eff(r)- Kohn and Sham [51] took advantage of the fact that the case of non-interacting electrons allows an exact computation of the particle density and kinetic energy as... 

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The CD spectra show that the groups with redox-dependent pK values must interact electronically with the [2Fe-2S] cluster Deprotonation of aspartate, glutamate, or tyrosine could be excluded by FTIR spectroscopy (Baymann, F. Link, T. A. Robertson, D. E. Mantele, W., manuscript in preparation)... 

These limitations, most urgently felt in solid state theory, have stimulated the search for alternative approaches to the many-body problem of an interacting electron system as found in solids, surfaces, interfaces, and molecular systems. Today, local density functional (LDF) theory (3-4) and its generalization to spin polarized systems (5-6) are known to provide accurate descriptions of the electronic and magnetic structures as well as other ground state properties such as bond distances and force constants in bulk solids and surfaces. 

Interaction electron-excited particles of gaseous phase with solid surface... 

An important consequence of the only approximate treatment of the electron-electron repulsion is that the true wave function of a many electron system is never a single Slater determinant We may ask now if SD is not the exact wave function of N interacting electrons, is there any other (necessarily artificial model) system of which it is the correct wave function The answer is Yes it can easily be shown that a Slater determinant is indeed an eigenfunction of a Hamilton operator defined as the sum of the Fock operators of equation (1-25)... 

To understand how Kohn and Sham tackled this problem, we go back to the discussion of the Hartree-Fock scheme in Chapter 1. There, our wave function was a single Slater determinant SD constructed from N spin orbitals. While the Slater determinant enters the HF method as the approximation to the true N-electron wave function, we showed in Section 1.3 that 4>sd can also be looked upon as the exact wave function of a fictitious system of N non-interacting electrons (that is electrons which behave as uncharged fermions and therefore do not interact with each other via Coulomb repulsion), moving in the elfective potential VHF. For this type of wave function the kinetic energy can be exactly expressed as... 

In order to distinguish these orbitals from their Hartree-Fock counterparts, they are usually termed Kohn-Sham orbitals, or briefly KS orbitals. The connection of this artificial system to the one we are really interested in is now established by choosing the effective potential Vs such that the density resulting from the summation of the moduli of the squared orbitals tpj exactly equals the ground state density of our real target system of interacting electrons,... 

Figure 7. The occupation number densities as functions of wave vector for Na. The thick curves labeled (100), (110) and (111) represent the three principal directions within the first Brillouin zone, obtained by the FLAPW-GWA. The thin solid curve is obtained from an interacting electron-gas model [27]. The dash-dotted line represents the Fermi momentum. 

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