Perturbation theorem

In the second period, which was ended by review GT after the average perturbation theorem was proved, it became possible to get the Kubo-like expression for the spectral function L(z) (GT, p. 150). This expression is applicable to any axially symmetric potential well. Several collision models were also considered, and the susceptibility was expressed through the same spectral function L(z) (GT, p. 188). The law of motion of the particles should now be determined only by the steady state. So, calculations became much simpler than in the period (1). The best achievements of the period (2) concern the cone-confined rotator model (GT, p. 231), in which the dipoles were assumed to librate in space in an infinitely deep rectangular well, and applications of the theory to nonassociated liquids (GT, p. 329). 

The formulas for the susceptibility of a harmonic oscillator, presented above, were first derived in Ref. 18 with neglect of correlation between the particles orientations and velocities. This derivation was based on an early version of the ACF method, in which the average perturbation theorem was not employed, so that the expression equivalent to Eq. (14c) was used. (The integrand of the latter involves the quantities perturbed by an a.c. field.) For a specific case of the parabolic potential, the above-mentioned theory is simple however, it becomes extremely cumbersome for more realistic forms of the potential well. 

Thus, in that example the linear system is ill-conditioned (its coefficient matrix A has a large condition number) and is sensitive to the input errors even if the computation is performed with infinite precision. Systems like Eq. (1) are not very sensitive to the input errors if the condition number of A is not large (then the system is called well conditioned). The latter fact follows from the next perturbation theorem, which bounds the output errors depending on the perturbation of inputs (on the input error) and on cond(A). 

A perturbation theorem for invariant manifold arui Holder continuity. Math, and Mech., 18, (1969), 705-762. 

We will need to know something about the way in which Ao, O and Y depend upon the kernel K(r,s) = (Kij r,s)), For this purpose we have the following perturbation theorem. 

There is no analytic proof of the Jahn-Teller theorem. It was shown to be valid by considering all possible point groups one by one. The theorem is traditionally treated within perturbation theory The Hamiltonian is divided into three parts... 

As discussed in detail in [10], equivalent results are not obtained with these three unitary transformations. A principal difference between the U, V, and B results is the phase of the wave function after being h ansported around a closed loop C, centered on the z axis parallel to but not in the (x, y) plane. The pertm bative wave functions obtained from U(9, <])) or B(0, <()) are, as seen from Eq. (26a) or (26c), single-valued when transported around C that is ( 3 )(r Ro) 3< (r R )) = 1, where Ro = Rn denote the beginning and end of this loop. This is a necessary condition for Berry s geometric phase theorem [22] to hold. On the other hand, the perturbative wave functions obtained from V(0, <])) in Eq. (26b) are not single valued when transported around C. 

Theorem 1 ([8]). Let H be analytic. There exists some r > 0, so that for all T < Tt the numerical solution Xk = ) Xo and the exact solution x of the perturbed system H (the sum being truncated after N = 0 1/t) terms) with x(0) = Xq remain exponentially close in the sense that... 

If we used perturbation theory to estimate the expansion coefficients c etc., then all the singly excited coefficients would be zero by Brillouin s theorem. This led authors to make statements that HF calculations of primary properties are correct to second order of perturbation theory , because substitution of the perturbed wavefunction into... 

In such cases the expression from fii st-order perturbation theory (10.18) yields a result identical to the first derivative of the energy with respect to A. For wave functions which are not completely optimized with respect to all parameters (Cl, MP or CC), the Hellmann-Feynman theorem does not hold, and a first-order property calculated as an expectation value will not be identical to that obtained as an energy derivative. Since the Hellmann-Feynman theorem holds for an exact wave function, the difference between the two values becomes smaller as the quality of an approximate wave function increases however, for practical applications the difference is not negligible. It has been argued that the derivative technique resembles the physical experiment more, and consequently formula (10.21) should be preferred over (10.18). 

If the perturbation is a homogeneous electric field F, the perturbation operator P i (eq. (10.17)) is the position vector r and P2 is zero. As.suming that the basis functions are independent of the electric field (as is normally the case), the first-order HF property, the dipole moment, from the derivative formula (10.21) is given as (since an HF wave function obeys the Hellmann-Feynman theorem)... 

These concepts play an important role in the Hard and Soft Acid and Base (HSAB) principle, which states that hard acids prefer to react with hard bases, and vice versa. By means of Koopmann s theorem (Section 3.4) the hardness is related to the HOMO-LUMO energy difference, i.e. a small gap indicates a soft molecule. From second-order perturbation theory it also follows that a small gap between occupied and unoccupied orbitals will give a large contribution to the polarizability (Section 10.6), i.e. softness is a measure of how easily the electron density can be distorted by external fields, for example those generated by another molecule. In terms of the perturbation equation (15.1), a hard-hard interaction is primarily charge controlled, while a soft-soft interaction is orbital controlled. Both FMO and HSAB theories may be considered as being limiting cases of chemical reactivity described by the Fukui ftinction. 

Ab-initio studies of surface segregation in alloys are based on the Ising-type Hamiltonian, whose parameters are the effective cluster interactions (ECI). The ECIs for alloy surfaces can be determined by various methods, e.g., by the Connolly-Williams inversion scheme , or by the generalized perturbation method (GPM) . The GPM relies on the force theorem , according to which only the band term is mapped onto the Ising Hamiltonian in the bulk case. The case of macroscopically inhomogeneous systems, like disordered surfaces is more complex. The ECIs can be determined on two levels of sophistication ... 

Nesting of KAM-tori For two-degree-of-freedom system, the KAM theorem states that for sufficiently weak perturbations, all sufficiently irrational KAM-tori are pre-... 

Recall that the KAM theorem states that as long as a nonlinear perturbation to an integrable system - such as that represented by the nonzero q term added to the integrable system defined by equations 4.45 - is sufficiently small, most trajectories will continue to lie on smooth KAM-curves. 

Carr, W. J., Phys. Rev. 106, 414, Use of a general virial theorem with perturbation theory. ... 

The present paper is aimed at developing an efficient CHF procedure [6-11] for the entire set of electric polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities defined in eqs. (l)-(6) up to the 5-th rank. Owing to the 2n+ theorem of perturbation theoiy [36], only 2-nd order perturbed wavefunctions and density matrices need to be calculated. Explicit expressions for the perturbed energy up to the 4-th order are given in Sec. IV. 

The numerical value of S is listed in Table 9.1. The simple variation function (9.88) gives an upper bound to the energy with a 1.9% error in comparison with the exact value. Thus, the variation theorem leads to a more accurate result than the perturbation treatment. Moreover, a more complex trial function with more parameters should be expected to give an even more accurate estimate. 

Nearly 10 years after Zwanzig published his perturbation method, Benjamin Widom [6] formulated the potential distribution theorem (PDF). He further suggested an elegant application of PDF to estimate the excess chemical potential -i.e., the chemical potential of a system in excess of that of an ideal, noninteracting system at the same density - on the basis of the random insertion of a test particle. In essence, the particle insertion method proposed by Widom may be viewed as a special case of the perturbative theory, in which the addition of a single particle is handled as a one-step perturbation of the liquid. 

Quantum mechanical models at different levels of approximation have been successfully applied to compute molecular hyperpolarizabilities. Some authors have attempted a complete determination of the U.V. molecular spectrum to fill in the expression of p (15, 16). Another approach is the finite-field perturbative technique (17) demanding the sole computation of the ground state level of a perturbated molecule, the hyperpolarizabilities being derivatives at a suitable order of the perturbed ground state molecule by application of the Hellman-Feynman theorem. 

To invoke the perturbation theory for a small anharmonic coupling coefficient, we use the Wick theorem for the coupling of the creation and annihilation operators of low-frequency modes in expression (A3.19). Retaining the terms of the orders y and y2, we are led to the following expressions for the shift AQ and the width 2T of the high-frequency vibration spectral line 184... 

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