Perturbation plane wave

Figure 5. Schematic arrangement for hologram formation with an electron biprism. A plane wave illuminates the specimen placed off-axis. After the object lens a wire is placed between two earthed plates. The wire is the electron optical analog of a Fresnel biprism and causes the unperturbed and perturbed waves forming the electron hologram to interfere. The object phase-shift causes a displacement in the hologram fringes, and is thus observable.

An expression for e(k) in the case of a Fermi gas of free electrons can be obtained by considering the effect of an introduced point charge potential, small enough so the arguments of perturbation theory are valid. In the absence of this potential, the electronic wave functions are plane waves V 1/2exp(ik r), where V is the volume of the system, and the electron density is uniform. The point charge potential is screened by the electrons, so that the potential felt by an electron, O, is due to the point charge and to the other electrons, whose wave functions are distorted from plane waves. The electron density and the potential are related by the Poisson equation,... 

The author has calculated and will publish elsewhere the perturbations of a known system by a force of the form EoF t). As a special case we have the problem of dispersion— namely, an atomic system acted on by a plane wave. In this case we have an electric field o cos 2irv/. If general cylindrical coordinates are chosen with the z direction parallel to the electric field, the expression for an element of the first order perturbation of the 2/ dimensional matrix q is given by ... 

The first (and still the foremost) quantum theory of stopping, attributed to Bethe [19,20], considers the observables energy and momentum transfers as fundamental in the interaction of fast charged particles with atomic electrons. Taking the simplest case of a heavy, fast, yet nonrelativistic incident projectile, the excitation cross-section is developed in the first Born approximation that is, the incident particle is represented as a plane wave and the scattered particle as a slightly perturbed wave. Representing the Coulombic interaction as a Fourier integral over momentum transfer, Bethe derives the differential Born cross-section for excitation to the nth quantum state of the atom as follows. 

It should be emphasized, however, that proof of the linear instability of a plane wave by no means resolves the question of the very nonlinear and possibly even stochastic character of the wave structure which emerges when the perturbations are fully developed. 

Example 2. Let us consider a variation of Example 1. The plane wave of previous example is perturbed with the addition of a small longitudinal component of magnetic field to get... 

The strategy is as follows. We start by rewriting the equations in cylindrical coordinates (r, ,z). The variables we consider are the layer displacement u (now in the radial direction) from the cylindrical state, the director n, and the fluid velocity v. The central part of the cylinder, r < Ri, containing a line defect, is not included. It is not expected to be relevant for the shear-induced instability. We write down linearized equations for layer displacement, director, and velocity perturbations for a multilamellar (smectic) cylinder oriented in the flow direction (z axis). We are interested in perturbations with the wave vector in the z direction as this is the relevant direction for the hypothetical break-up of the cylinder into onions. The unperturbed configuration in the presence of shear flow (the ground state) depends on r and 0 and is determined numerically. The perturbations, of course, depend on all three coordinates. We take into account translational symmetry of the ground state in the z direction and use a plane wave ansatz in that direction. Thus, our ansatze for the perturbed variables are... 

When a tunneling calculation is undertaken, many simplifications render the task easier than a complete transport calculation such as the one of [32]. Let us take the formulation by Caroli et al. [16] using the change induced by the vibration in the spectral function of the lead. In this description, the current and thus the conductance are proportional to the density of states (spectral function) of the leads (here tip and substrate). This is tantamount to using some perturbational scheme on the electron transmission amplitude between tip and substrate. This is what Bardeen s transfer Hamiltonian achieves. The main advantage of this approximation is that one can use the electronic structure calculated by some standard way, for example plane-wave codes, and use perturbation theory to account for the inelastic effect. In [33], a careful description of the Bardeen approximation in the context of inelastic tunneling is given, and how the equivalent of Tersoff and Hamann theory [34,35] of the STM is obtained in the inelastic case. 

Since we wish to treat it as a perturbation upon the free plane-wave states, it will always enter the calculation as a matrix element between two such plane-wave states, as in Eq. (1-14). It is most convenient to write such a matrix element between a state of wave number k and a state with wave number k -I- q as... 

This completes the specification of the pseudopotential as a perturbation in a perfect crystal. We have obtained all of the matrix elements between the plane-wave states, which arc the electronic states of zero order in the pseudopotcntial. We have found that they vanish unless the difference in wave number between the two coupled states is a lattice wave number, and in that case they are given by the pseudopotential form factor for that wave number difference by Eq. (16-7), assuming that there is only one ion per primitive cell, as in the face-centered and body-centered cubic structures. We discuss only cases with more than one ion per primitive cell when we apply pseudopotential theory to semiconductors in Chapter 18. Tlicn the matrix element will be given by a structure factor, Eq. (16-17),... 

Extension of pseudopotential theory to the transition metals preceded the use of the Orbital Correction Method discussed in Appendix E, but transition-metal pseudopotentials are a special case of it. In this method, the stales are expanded as a linear combination of plane waves (or OPW s) plus a linear combination of atomic d states. If the potential in the metal were the same as in the atom, the atomic d states would be eigenstates in the metal and there would be no matrix elements of the Hamiltonian with other slates. However, the potential ix different by an amount we might write F(r), and there arc, correspondingly, matrix elements (k 1 // 1 r/> = hybridizing the d states with the frce-eleclron states. The full analysis (Harrison, 1969) shows that the correct perturbation differs from (5K by a constant. The hybridization potential is... 

The gener2il idea is to look for plane waves perturbations having the form leading... 

This equation represents the motion of a harmonic plane wave that depends on space and time, with amplitude oscillating between uq exp(—ax2). The amplitude attenuates with the distance from the perturbative shearing plate, approaching zero as X2 -> oo. As a consequence, the exponent a in Eq. (16.262) is called the attenuating factor per unit length. The zeros of u in Eq. (16.262) occur when bx2 = = 1, 2, 3,..., at distances X2 = X./2, X,... 

The nature of the neutrons in the incident beam is represented by their initial wavefunction, y/,, which at long distances from the scattering nucleus will be a simple plane wave. At short distances from the nucleus the influence of its nuclear potential perturbs the incident wavefunction into the final wavefunction, n,f- The form of the final wavefunction is dependent on the energy of the neutron and is determined by solving the... 

---