Model eigenvalue problem

In the approach of Dewar and co-workers (34), termed the half-electron method , a physical model is considered in which an unpaired electron is replaced by two hypothetical half-electrons of opposite spin. For radicals containing one unpaired electron, the eigenvalue problem of this method is, in our opinion, identical with the method of Longuet-Higgins and Pople (27) ... 

In order to separate the electronic and nuclear coordinates in an eigenvalue problem for the Hamiltonian defined by Equation 1, the adiabatic approximation in the version of a Bom-Oppenheimer model is used. In general, the eigenfunction defined within the adiabatic approximation is defined as a linear combination. 

Equation (7.50) is also an example of an eigenvalue problem (see Section 4.3.1), of the type commonly encountered in chemistry when modelling electronic and nuclear motions. 

The overlap operator of the primitive VB model may be rigorously transformed away. Indeed, the eigenvalue problem of (2.2.1) is seen to be equivalent to... 

In real systems, the number of spin centers N is, of course, too large to deterministically solve the corresponding eigenvalue problem of a corresponding spin Hamiltonian. Thus, no exact solution exists. Several approximate expressions were developed, such as the Bonner Fisher finite-chain model for equidistant antiferro-magnetically coupled S = 1/2-based chains.20 Here, the susceptibility is calculated for finite chain segments (ca. N 10 spin centers) and extrapolated to an infinite chain (N > oo). The extrapolated expression for the susceptibility is as follows ... 

Once the mathematical formalism of theoretical matrix mechanics had been established, all players who contributed to its development, continued their collaboration, under the leadership of Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, to unravel the physical implications of the mathematical theory. This endeavour gained urgent impetus when an independent solution to the mechanics of quantum systems, based on a wave model, was published soon after by Erwin Schrodinger. A real dilemma was created when Schrodinger demonstrated the equivalence of the two approaches when defined as eigenvalue problems, despite the different philosophies which guided the development of the respective theories. The treasured assumption of matrix mechanics that only experimentally measurable observables should feature as variables of the theory clearly disqualified the unobservable wave function, which appears at the heart of wave mechanics. 

The eigenvalue problem of the Hamiltonian operator (1) is defined in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space Q and may be solved directly only for very few simple models. In order to find its bound-state solutions with energies not too distant from the ground-state it is reduced to the corresponding eigenvalue problem of a matrix representing H in a properly constructed finite-dimensional model space, a subspace of Q. Usually the model space is chosen to be spanned by TV-electron antisymmetrized and spin-adapted products of orthonormal spinorbitals. In such a case it is known as the full configuration interaction (FCI) space [8, 15]. The model space Hk N, K, S, M) may be defined as the antisymmetric part of the TV-fold tensorial product of a one-electron space... 

R. P. Messmer, From finite clusters of atoms to the infinite solid. I. solution of the eigenvalue problem of a simple tight binding model for clusters of arbitrary size, Phys. Rev. B15 1811-1816 (1977). 

The problem solved above is an example of a scattering process, treated here within a one-dimensional model. Unlike bound state systems such as the harmonic oscillator of Section 2.9, in a scattering process all energies are possible and we seek a solution at a given energy E, so we do not solve an eigenvalue problem. The wavefunction does not vanish at infinity, therefore normalization as a requirement that < T/f(x)P = 1 is meaningless. 

Thus, for two free surfaces, the eigenvalue problem for a is reduced to finding a nontrival solution of Eq. (12-199), subject to the six boundary conditions, (12-200), (12-203), and (12-204). In particular, let us suppose that we specify Pr, Gr, and a2 (the wave number of the normal model of perturbation). There is then a single eigenvalue for a such that / / 0. If Real(er) < 0 for all a, the system is stable to infinitesimal disturbances. On the other hand, if Real(er) > 0 for any a, it is unconditionally unstable. Stated in another way, the preceding statements imply that for any Pr there will be a certain value of Gr such that all disturbances of any a decay. The largest such value of Gr is called the critical value for linear stability. 

The eigenvalue problems, defined above for the radial functions through Eqs. (113) to (116), reduce to homogeneous problems in the case of one-electron atoms, since the various terms A (r) and j(r) are zero. Closed-form solutions are well known for the one-electron atom with a point-like nucleus, both in the non-relativistic and the relativistic framework, but do not exist for the large majority of finite nucleus models. A determination of the energy eigenvalue for a bound state i of the one-electron atom with a finite nucleus, is then possible in two ways, either by perturbation... 

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