Reciprocal form factor

The reciprocal form factor [22] is the Fourier transform of the momentum distribution,... 

Using (III. 11) we see that the reciprocal form factor of a crystal which is invariant under a space group, satisfies the relations,... 

We notice that neither the momentum distribution nor the reciprocal form factor seems to carry any information about the translational part of the space group. The non diagonal elements of the number density matrix in momentum space, on the other hand, transform under the elements of the space group in a way which brings in the translational parts explicitly. 

Using the valence profiles of the 10 measured directions per sample it is now possible to reconstruct as a first step the Ml three-dimensional momentum space density. According to the Fourier Bessel method [8] one starts with the calculation of the Fourier transform of the Compton profiles which is the reciprocal form factor B(z) in the direction of the scattering vector q. The Ml B(r) function is then expanded in terms of cubic lattice harmonics up to the 12th order, which is to take into account the first 6 terms in the series expansion. These expansion coefficients can be determined by a least square fit to the 10 experimental B(z) curves. Then the inverse Fourier transform of the expanded B(r) function corresponds to a series expansion of the momentum density, whose coefficients can be calculated from the coefficients of the B(r) expansion. 

For the reconstruction of the occupation number density (k) in the repeated zone scheme one uses the reciprocal form factor at lattice translation vectors R, as (k) can be written as [9]... 

Since momentum densities are unfamiliar to many. Section II outlines the connection between the position and momentum space representations of wavefunctions and reduced-density matrices, and the connections among one-electron density matrices, densities, and other functions such as the reciprocal form factor. General properties of momentum densities, including symmetry, expansion methods, asymptotic behavior, and moments, are described in... 

B( ) is variously called the reciprocal form factor, the p-space form factor, and the internally folded density. B(s) is the basis of a method for reconstructing momentum densities from experimental data [145,146], and it is useful for the r-space analysis of Compton profiles [147-151]. The B(s) function probably first arose in an examination of the connection between form factors and the electron momentum density [129]. The B f) function has been rediscovered by Howard et al. [152]. 

Since the momentum density is related to the reciprocal form factor or internally folded density by a Fourier transform, Eq. (5.29), there are sum rules that connect moments of momentum with the spherical average of B f) defined by... 

The reciprocal form factor /P(q) for a ideal linear chain [Eq. (2.160)] is shown in Fig. 2.21 as a function of q iR ) (medium line) and is compared with the reciprocal form factors for a rigid rod (thin line) and for a solid sphere (thick line). The form factors of a rod,... 

There are two main methods for the reconstruction of 7T(p) from the directional Compton profile. In the Fourier-Hankel method [33,51], a spherical harmonic expansion of the directional Compton profile is inverted term-by-term to obtain the corresponding expansion of /T(p). In the Fourier reconstraction method [33,34], the reciprocal form factor B0) is constructed a ray at a time by Fourier transformation of the measured J(q) along that same direction. Then the electron momentum density is obtained from B( ) by using the inverse of Eq. (22). A vast number of directional Compton profiles have been measured for ionic and metallic solids, but none for free molecules. Nevertheless, several calculations of directional Compton profiles for molecules have been performed as another means of analyzing the momentum density. 

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