Off-diagonal elements

The off-diagonal elements of the variance-covariance matrix represent the covariances between different parameters. From the covariances and variances, correlation coefficients between parameters can be calculated. When the parameters are completely independent, the correlation coefficient is zero. As the parameters become more correlated, the correlation coefficient approaches a value of +1 or -1. 

The off-diagonal elements in this representation of h and v are the zero vector of lengtii (for h) and matrix elements which couple the zeroth-order ground-state eigenfunction members of the set q (for v) ... 

Note that the diagonal elements of the matrix, ap and hp, correspond to the populations in the energy levels, a and b, and contain no time dependence, while the off-diagonal elements, called the coherences, contain all the time dependence. 

The populations, /Q, appear on the diagonal as expected, but note that there are no off-diagonal elements—no coherences this is reasonable since we expect the equilibrium state to be time-independent, and we have associated the coherences with time. 

It follows that there are two kinds of processes required for an arbitrary initial state to relax to an equilibrium state the diagonal elements must redistribute to a Boltzmaim distribution and the off-diagonal elements must decay to zero. The first of these processes is called population decay in two-level systems this time scale is called Ty The second of these processes is called dephasmg, or coherence decay in two-level systems there is a single time scale for this process called T. There is a well-known relationship in two level systems, valid for weak system-bath coupling, that... 

The symmetry argument actually goes beyond the above deterniination of the symmetries of Jahn-Teller active modes, the coefficients of the matrix element expansions in different coordinates are also symmetry determined. Consider, for simplicity, an electronic state of symmetiy in an even-electron molecule with a single threefold axis of symmetry, and choose a representation in which two complex electronic components, e ) = 1/v ( ca) i cb)), and two degenerate complex nuclear coordinate combinations Q = re " each have character T under the C3 operation, where x — The bras e have character x. Since the Hamiltonian operator is totally symmetric, the diagonal matrix elements e H e ) are totally symmetric, while the characters of the off-diagonal elements ezf H e ) are x. Since x = 1, it follows that an expansion of the complex Hamiltonian matrix to quadratic terms in Q. takes the form... 

Comparison with Eq. (43) is illuminating. By the method of constmction, the matrix elements of A aie identical with the off-diagonal elements of P thus, with the help of Eqs. (41) and (42)... 

The eigenvalues of this mabix have the form of Eq. (68), but this time the matrix elements are given by Eqs. (84) and (85). The symmetry arguments used to determine which nuclear modes couple the states, Eq. (81), now play a cracial role in the model. Thus the linear expansion coefficients are only nonzero if the products of symmebies of the electronic states at Qq and the relevant nuclear mode contain the totally symmebic inep. As a result, on-diagonal matrix elements are only nonzero for totally symmebic nuclear coordinates and, if the elecbonic states have different symmeby, the off-diagonal elements will only... 

The familiar BO approximation is obtained by ignoring the operators A completely. This results in the picture of the nuclei moving over the PES provided by the electrons, which are moving so as to instantaneously follow the nuclear motion. Another common level of approximation is to exclude the off-diagonal elements of this operator matrix. This is known as the Bom-Huang, or simply the adiabatic, approximation (see [250] for further details of the possible approximations and nomenclature associated with the nuclear Schrodinger equation). 

The basis consisting of the adiabatic electronic functions (we shall call it bent basis ) has a seiious drawback It leads to appearance of the off-diagonal elements that tend to infinity when the molecule reaches linear geometry (i.e., p 0). Thus it is convenient to introduce new electronic basis functions by the transformation... 

The diagonal elements of the matrix [Eqs. (31) and (32)], actually being an effective operator that acts onto the basis functions Ro,i, are diagonal in the quantum number I as well. The factors exp( 2iAct)) [Eqs. (27)] determine the selection rule for the off-diagonal elements of this matrix in the vibrational basis—they couple the basis functions with different I values with one another (i.e., with I — l A). 

It follows that the only possible values for la + Ip are S A and the computation of vibronic levels can be carried out for each K block separately. Matrix elements of the electronic operator diagonal with respect to the electronic basis [first of Eqs. (60)], and the matrix elements of T are diagonal with respect to the quantum number I = la + Ip. The off-diagonal elements of [second and third of Eqs. (60)] connect the basis functions with I — la + Ip and I — l + l — l 2A. 

The bond-clcctron matrix (BE-matrix) was introduced in the Dugundji-Ugi model [39], It can be considered as an extension of the bond matrix or as a mod-ific atinn of Spialter s atom connectivity matrix [38], The BE-inatrix gives, in addition to the entries of bond values in the off-diagonal elements, the number of free valence electrons on the corresponding atom in the diagonal elements (e.g., 03 = 4 in Figure 2-18). 

The Wiener index was originally defined only for acyclic graphs and was initially called the path number [6]. "The path number, W, is defined as the sum of the distances between any two carbon atoms in the molecule in terms of carbon-carbon bonds". Hosoya extended the Wiener index and defined it as the half-sum of the off diagonal elements of a distance matrix D in the hydrogen-depleted molecular graph of Eq, (15), where dij is an element of the distance matrix D and gives the shortest path between atoms i and j. 

To do this, multiply the binomials at the top left and bottom right (the principal diagonal) and then, from this product, subtract the product of the remaining two elements, the off-diagonal elements (42 — 9x). The difference is set equal to zero ... 

The force constants k 2 and k2 are the off-diagonal elements of the matrix. If they are zero, the oscillators are uncoupled, but even if they are not zero, the K matrix takes the simple fomi of a symmetrical matrix because ki2 = k2. The matrix is symmetrical even though may not be equal to k22-... 

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