Inverse power

It is usefiil to classify various contributions to intennolecular forces on the basis of the physical phenomena that give rise to them. The first level of classification is into long-range forces that vary as inverse powers of the distance r , and short-range forces that decrease exponentially with distance as m exp(-ar). 

The electrostatic potential generated by a molecule A at a distant point B can be expanded m inverse powers of the distance r between B and the centre of mass (CM) of A. This series is called the multipole expansion because the coefficients can be expressed in temis of the multipole moments of the molecule. With this expansion in hand, it is... 

The exp-6 potential replaces the inverse power repulsion in the Leimard-Jones (12, 6) fiinction by a more realistic exponential fomi ... 

Independent molecules and atoms interact through non-bonded forces, which also play an important role in determining the structure of individual molecular species. The non-bonded interactions do not depend upon a specific bonding relationship between atoms, they are through-space interactions and are usually modelled as a function of some inverse power of the distance. The non-bonded terms in a force field are usually considered in two groups, one comprising electrostatic interactions and the other van der Waals interactions. 

The hard sphere (HS) interaction is an excellent approximation for sterically stabilized colloids. However, there are other interactions present in colloidal systems that may replace or extend the pure HS interaction. As an example let us consider soft spheres given by an inverse power law (0 = The energy scale Vq and the length scale cr can be com-... 

A+B L -fl/2) have also been used. The theoretical assumption underlying an inverse power dependence is that the basis set is saturated in the radial part (e.g. the cc-pVTZ ba.sis is complete in the s-, p-, d- and f-function spaces). This is not the case for the correlation consistent basis sets, even for the cc-pV6Z basis the errors due to insuficient numbers of s- to i-functions is comparable to that from neglect of functions with angular moment higher than i-functions. 

The correlation energy is expected to have an inverse power dependence once the basis set reaches a sufficient (large) size. Extrapolating the correlation contribution for n = 3-5(6) with a function of the type A + B n + I) yields the cc-pVooZ values in Table 11.8. The extrapolated CCSD(T) energy is —76.376 a.u., yielding a valence correlation energy of —0.308 a.u. 

Kihara20 used a core model in which the Lennard-Jones potential is assumed to hold for the shortest distance between the molecular cores instead of molecular centers. By use of linear, tetrahedral, and other shapes of cores, various molecules can be approximated. Thomaes,41 Rowlinson,35 Hamann, McManamey, and Pearse,14 Atoji and Lipscomb,1 Pitzer,30 and Balescu,4 have used other models of attracting centers and other mathemtical methods, but obtain similar conclusions. The primary effect is to steepen the potential curve so that in terms of inverse powers of the inter-... 

One determines 0O from Eq. (1-15), and then uses it in the integral of Eq. (1-16). For this inverse power law, the angle of deflection is thus dependent upon all of the parameters of the collision only through the single parameter bQ, and v. 

Using the impact approximation presented in Chapter 6, they may easily be found for any rotational band even if rotational-vibrational interaction is nonlinear in J. In 1954 R W. Anderson proved as a theorem [104] that expansion of the spectral wings in inverse powers of frequency is controlled by successive odd derivatives of the correlation function at the origin. In impact approximation the lowest non-zero derivative of this type is the third and therefore asymptotics G/(co) is described by the power expansion [20]... 

The vibrational relaxation of simple molecular ions M+ in the M+-M collision (where M = 02, N2, and CO) is studied using the method of distorted waves with the interaction potential constructed from the inverse power and the polarization energy. For M-M collisions the calculated values of the collision number required to de-excite a quantum of vibrational energy are consistently smaller than the observed data by a factor of 5 over a wide temperature range. For M+-M collisions, the vibrational relaxation times of M+ (r+) are estimated from 300° to 3000°K. In both N2 and CO, t + s are smaller than ts by 1-2 orders of magnitude whereas in O r + is smaller than t less than 1 order of magnitude except at low temperatures. 

We consider a general inverse power potential function of the form... 

If R(=rAB) is large, this can be expanded7 in inverse powers of R to give the expression... 

Dropping the attractive term in Equation 24.5 gives the inverse power-law (IPL) repulsive potential [69-72]... 

The expectation values of powers and inverse powers of r for any arbitrary state of the hydrogen-like atom are defined by... 

Agrawal, R. Kofke, D. A., Solid-fluid coexistence for inverse-power potentials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1995, 74, 122-125... 

In ionic crystals with d = nearest neighbor distance, the ions repulse each other strongly when d becomes smaller than the equilibrium value d0. This can be described by an inverse power function, +l/dn, where n is a power of order, 9. As for the electrostatic attractions, these repulsions must be summed over the N molecules of the crystal structure, yielding another constant, D. The energy, < > per molecule (ion pair) is then ... 

Charge exchange cross sections depend on a high inverse power of velocity (Bohr, 1948) thus, at high speeds, they are insignificant. At low speeds, however,... 

From the high inverse power dependence of CTe on v as seen from Eq. (3.5), it is clear that capture probability increases very rapidly with slowing down. The equilibrium ionic charge can be estimated at a given velocity from Eqs. (3.4) and (3.5). Since charge exchange is a nonequilibrium phenomenon,... 

The ionic model, developed by Bom, Lande, and Lennard-Jones, enables lattice energies (U) to be summed from inverse square law interactions between spherically symmetrical charge distributions and interactions following higher inverse power laws. Formation enthalpies are related to calculated lattice energies in the familiar Bom-Haber cycle. For an alkali fluoride... 

Empirically corrected DFT theories almost invariably go back to second-order perturbation theory with expansion of the interaction Hamiltonian in inverse powers of the intermolecular distance, leading to R 6, R x, and R 10 corrections to the energy in an isotropic treatment (odd powers appear if anisotropy is taken into account [86]). 

The cation-anion pair potential for a symmetrical salt may be written as the sum of the core repulsion and the coulomb interaction. For example, if the core repulsion is an inverse power potential, then ... 

Figure 11 MCT P-scaling for the amplitudes of the von Schweidler laws fitting the plateau decay in the incoherent intermediate scattering function for a R value smaller than the position of the amorphous halo, q = 3.0, at the amorphous halo, q = 6.9, and at the first minimum, q = 9.5. Also shown with filled squares is the P time scale. All quantities are taken to the inverse power of their predicted temperature dependence such that linear laws intersecting the abscissa at Tc should result. 

This is a Dunham-like expansion but done around the anharmonic solution. It converges very quickly to the exact solution if the potential is not too different from that of a Morse oscillator (Figure 2.3). This will not, however, be the case for the highest-lying vibrational states just below the dissociation threshold. The inverse power dependence of the potential suggests that fractional powers of n must be included (LeRoy and Bernstein, 1970). 

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