Molecules external potential

These results, as most related results of density functional theory, have direct connections to the fundamental statement of the Hohenberg-Kohntheorem the nondegenerate ground state electron density p(r) of a molecule of n electrons in a local spin-independent external potential V, expressed in a spin-averaged form as... 

The introduction of the external potential Vex, in Equation 4 is designed to mimic the effect of the surrounding (implicit) bulk solvent on the system by restricting the movement of any explicit water molecules.49 Thus, Vex[ is interpreted as arising from the force exerted on the explicit atoms by the implicit surrounding bulk solvent. This restraining potential has the simple harmonic form,49... 

The initial implementation of DFT employed the so-called local density approximation, LDA (or, if we have separate a and [i spin, the local spin density approximation, LSDA). The basic assumption is that the density varies only slowly with distance -which it is locally constant. Another way of visualizing the concept of LDA is that we start with a homogeneous electron gas and subsequently localize the density around each external potential - each nucleus in a molecule or a solid. That the density is locally constant is indeed true for the intermediate densities, but not necessarily so in the high- and low-density regions. To correct for this, it was rec-... 

The previous result is an important one. It indicates that there can be yet another fruitful route to describe lipid bilayers. The idea is to consider the conformational properties of a probe molecule, and then replace all the other molecules by an external potential field (see Figure 11). This external potential may be called the mean-field or self-consistent potential, as it represents the mean behaviour of all molecules self-consistently. There are mean-field theories in many branches of science, for example (quantum) physics, physical chemistry, etc. Very often mean-field theories simplify the system to such an extent that structural as well as thermodynamic properties can be found analytically. This means that there is no need to use a computer. However, the lipid membrane problem is so complicated that the help of the computer is still needed. The method has been refined over the years to a detailed and complex framework, whose results correspond closely with those of MD simulations. The computer time needed for these calculations is however an order of 105 times less (this estimate is certainly too small when SCF calculations are compared with massive MD simulations in which up to 1000 lipids are considered). Indeed, the calculations can be done on a desktop PC with typical... 

In DFT, the ground-state energy of an atom or a molecule is written in terms of the electronic density p(r), and the external potential v(r), in the form [1,6]... 

The external potential [1] is responsible for keeping the electrons confined to a region of space. For the case of an isolated molecule, the external potential is the potential generated by its nuclei. When one considers the interaction between a molecule and another species, then the external potential is the one generated by the nuclei of both species, and it acts on all the electrons. However, when they are very far apart from each other, since the electrons of both species are localized in, basically, separated regions, then the external potential of each species may be assumed to be the one generated by its own nuclei, and by the nuclei and the electrons of the other species. 

Secondly, information is obtained on the nature of the nuclei in the molecule from the cusp condition [11]. Thirdly, the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem points out that, besides determining the number of electrons, the density also determines the external potential that is present in the molecular Hamiltonian [15]. Once the number of electrons is known from Equation 16.1 and the external potential is determined by the electron density, the Hamiltonian is completely determined. Once the electronic Hamiltonian is determined, one can solve Schrodinger s equation for the wave function, subsequently determining all observable properties of the system. In fact, one can replace the whole set of molecular descriptors by the electron density, because, according to quantum mechanics, all information offered by these descriptors is also available from the electron density. 

When a molecule A is attacked by another molecule B, it will be perturbed in either its number of electrons NA or its external potential vA(r). At the very early stages of the reaction, the total electronic energy of A, EA can be expressed as a Taylor series expansion around the isolated system values NA and v jfr)... 

The answer is yes, in a very general way, as has been discussed before [62,63]. Consider any parameter in the external potential, called y. For definiteness, we choose the internuclear separation in a diatomic molecule. Then the exchange-correlation energy depends parametrically on this quantity. Now imagine making an infinitesimal change in y. The differential change in is... 

Our object of interest is a many electron finite system (such as an atom, molecule, cluster etc.), having, by assumption, a nondegenerate ground state (GS) (this assumption will be removed in Sects. 4.4 and 5). The numter of electrons N and the electron-nuclei potential energy v(r) = Ve (r) (the so-called external potential) are given and common for all schemes to be discussed. The GS energy qs aod the GS wave function Vqs of the system can be found from a variational principle as... 

The external potential of a molecule having, as its framework, M nuclei of the charges Zj, fixed at positions Rj, is obviously... 

Here v(x) denotes the external potential of the molecule for an isolated molecule in the absence of external electric fields, this is simply the potential due to nuclear-electron attraction. 

Methods are introduced for generating many-electron Sturmian basis sets using the actual external potential experienced by an N-electron system, i.e. the attractive potential of the nuclei. When such basis sets are employed, very few basis functions are needed for an accurate representation of the system the kinetic energy term disappears from the secular equation solution of the secular equation provides automatically an optimal basis set and a solution to the many-electron problem is found directly, including electron correlation, and without the self-consistent field approximation. In the case of molecules, the momentum-space hyperspherical harmonic methods of Fock, Shibuya and Wulfman are shown to be very well suited to the construction of many-electron Sturmian basis functions. 

A diatomic molecule with fixed bond length R rotating in the absence of any external potential is described by the following Schrodinger equation ... 

J. M. Schurr and B. S. Fujimoto, Equalities for the nonequilibrium work transferred from an external potential to a molecular system analysis of single-molecule extension experiments. J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 14007-14019 (2003). 

Just as the central ion can perturb and cause a rearrangement of the surrounding solvent molecules and ions, the electrode itself can cause the surrounding particles to assume abnormal, compromise positions (relative to the bulk of the electrolyte). It will be seen later that an electrode also can get enveloped by a solvent sheath and an ionic cloud. There are, however, many other interesting, phenomena arising from the fact that one can connect an external potential source (e.g., a battery) to the electrode by a metallic wire and thus control the electrode charge. New possibilities emerge that do not exist in the case of the central ion. 

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