Schrodinger equation potentials

To theoretical and computational chemists, the world may seem to revolve around the Schrodinger equation, potential energy force field equations, or perhaps some quantitative structure-activity relationship equations for predicting biological activity. These various equations have been the basis of the livelihood of many a computational chemist. Interestingly, author Guillen apparently did not deem these equations to have risen to the level of having... 

As noted some time ago, the NACTs, can be incorporated in the nuclear part of the Schrodinger equation as a vector potential [74,75]. The question of a... 

Substitution of Eq. (12) into the Schrodinger equation leads to a system of coupled differential equations similai to Eq. (5), but with the following differences the potential matrix with elements... 

Although Eq. (139) looks like a Schrodinger equation that contains a vector potential x, it cannot be interpreted as such because t is an antisymmetric matrix (thus, having diagonal terms that are equal to zero). This inconvenience can be repaired by employing the following unitary bansformation ... 

The important outcome from this transformation is that now the non-adiabatic coupling term t is incorporated in the Schrodinger equation in the same way as a vector potential due to an external magnetic field. In other words, X behaves like a vector potential and therefore is expected to fulfill an equation of the kind [111a]... 

This Schrodinger equation relates to the rotation of diatomic and linear polyatomic molecules. It also arises when treating the angular motions of electrons in any spherically symmetric potential... 

In addition to initial conditions, solutions to the Schrodinger equation must obey eertain other eonstraints in form. They must be eontinuous funetions of all of their spatial eoordinates and must be single valued these properties allow T T to be interpreted as a probability density (i.e., the probability of finding a partiele at some position ean not be multivalued nor ean it be jerky or diseontinuous). The derivative of the wavefunetion must also be eontinuous exeept at points where the potential funetion undergoes an infinite jump (e.g., at the wall of an infinitely high and steep potential barrier). This eondition relates to the faet that the momentum must be eontinuous exeept at infinitely steep potential barriers where the momentum undergoes a sudden reversal. 

After solving the electronic Schrodinger equation (equation 4), to calculate a potential energy surface, you must add back nuclear-nuclear repulsions (equation 5). 

The quantum mechanics methods in HyperChem differ in how they approximate the Schrodinger equation and how they compute potential energy. The ab initio method expands molecular orbitals into a linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) and does not introduce any further approximation. 

The Extended Hiickel method, for example, does not explicitly consider the effects of electron-electron repulsions but incorporates repulsions into a single-electron potential. This simplifies the solution of the Schrodinger equation and allows HyperChem to compute the potential energy as the sum of the energies for each electron. 

This last equation is the nuclear Schrodinger equation describing the motion of nuclei. The electronic energy computed from solving the electronic Schrodinger equation (3) on page 163 plus the nuclear-nuclear interactions Vjjjj(R,R) provide a potential for nuclear motion, a Potential Energy Surface (PES). 

Molecular quantum mechanics finds the solution to a Schrodinger equation for an electronic Hamiltonian, Hgjg., that gives a total energy, Egjg(-(R) + V (R,R). Repeated solutions at different nuclear configurations, R, lead to some approximate potential energy sur-... 

Rather than solve a Schrodinger equation with the Nuclear Hamiltonian (above), a common approximation is to assume that atoms are heavy enough so that classical mechanics is a good enough approximation. Motion of the particles on the potential surface, according to the laws of classical mechanics, is then the subject of classical trajectory analysis or molecular dynamics. These come about by replacing Equation (7) on page 164 with its classical equivalent ... 

The metal cluster will be modeled as an infinitely deep spherical potential well with the represented by an infinitely high spherical barrier. Let us place this barrier in the center of the spherical cluster to simplify the calculations. The simple Schrodinger equation, containing only the interaction of the electrons with the static potential and the kinetic energy term and neglecting any electron-electron interaction, can then be solved analytically, the solutions for the radial wave functions being linear combinations of spherical Bessel and Neumann functions. 

If we want to calculate the potential energy curve, then we have to change the intemuclear separation and rework the electronic problem at the new A-B distance, as in the H2 calculation. Once again, should we be so interested, the nuclear problem can be studied by solving the appropriate nuclear Schrodinger equation. This is a full quantum-mechanical equation, not to be confused with the MM treatment. 

The electrons are treated as independent particles constrained to a three-dimensional box, treated here for simplicity as a cube of side L. The box contains the metallic sample. The potential U is infinite outside the box, and a constant Uq inside the box. We focus attention on a single electron whose electronic Schrodinger equation is... 

In the Bom-Oppenheimer picture the nuclei move on a potential energy surface (PES) which is a solution to the electronic Schrodinger equation. The PES is independent of the nuclear masses (i.e. it is the same for isotopic molecules), this is not the case when working in the adiabatic approximation since the diagonal correction (and mass polarization) depends on the nuclear masses. Solution of (3.16) for the nuclear wave function leads to energy levels for molecular vibrations (Section 13.1) and rotations, which in turn are the fundamentals for many forms of spectroscopy, such as IR, Raman, microwave etc. 

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