Residual coupling terms

If we disregard electronic phenomena, ignore the residual coupling terms between atomic quasi-particles, and specialize to the case of a single kind of composite quasi-particle, i.e. a pure chemical substance, at low density, the dynamical map P = W(X) allows us to write the Hamiltonian iC in the form,... 

Nevertheless, the residual first-derivative coupling term Vr does not... 

Elements of the matrix —(ft2/2p)W i are usually small in the vicinity of a conical intersection and can be added to zd to give a corrected diabatic energy matrix. As can be seen, whereas in Eq. (15) W ad contains both the singular matrix W ad and the nonsingular one W ad, Eq. (31) contains only the latter. Nevertheless, the residual first-derivative coupling term w ad Vr does not vanish. 

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The purpose of this transformation is to bring the Hamiltonian (3.18) to a form consisting of three Hamiltonians a purely harmonic or phonon-like part, a quasi-molecular (QM) and a third perturbational term H (the residual coupling)... 

In discussing the alternative theoretical approaches let us limit ourselves to those which have been applied directly to processes in which we are interested in this article, but first of all let us stress once more the importance of the work of Delos and Thorson (1972). They formulated a unified treatment of the two-state atomic potential curve crossing problem, reducing the two second-order coupled equations to a set of three first-order equations. Their formalism is valid in the diabatic as well as the adiabatic representation and also at distances of closest approach near Rc. Moreover the problem of the residual phase x(l) is solved implicitly. They were able to show that a solution of the three first-order classical trajectory equations is not sensitive to all details of the potentials and the coupling term, but to only one function which therefore can be used readily for modelling assumptions. The resulting equations should be solved numerically. Their method has been applied now to the problem of the elastic scattering of He+ + Ne (Bobbio et at., 1973) but unfortunately not yet to any ionization problem. 

A double perturbation expansion of the FC coupling term up to second order in both the magnetic and Coulomb residual interactions was carried out within the CS-INDO method in polymethyne chains. It should be noted, however, that such an expansion usually converges only slowly and, in order for the SOS approach to be equivalent to the FPT and CHF ones, some of the terms in it must be summed to infinite order with respect to the Coulomb interaction. The authors conclude that their calculations do not succeed in generating unique effective parameters 5 (0) and fo " example,... 

The approximation we make in the transformation process is to neglect both the off-diagonal terms in the transformed Hamiltonian and the residual coupling in the wave function. At the same time as neglecting 8, we also renormalize rlf. This will introduce a scaling factor, which we will absorb into the definition of and O. With these approximations, the relations between the wave functions become... 

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