Wavefunctions value finiteness

The square of the wavefunction is finite beyond the classical turrfing points of the motion, and this is referred to as quantum-mechanical tunnelling. There is a further point worth noticing about the quantum-mechanical solutions. The harmonic oscillator is not allowed to have zero energy. The smallest allowed value of vibrational energy is h/2jt). k /fj. 0 + j) and this is called the zero point energy. Even at a temperature of OK, molecules have this residual energy. 

The wavefunction must fulfill certain mathematical requirements because of its physical interpretation. It must be single-valued, finite and continuous. It must also satisfy a normalization condition... 

This momentum operator produces discrete energy levels under the boundary condition of potential V to make the wavefunctions P finite. The discrete energy values and the corresponding wavefunctions are called eigenvalues and... 

The term 11 (0) 2 is the square of the absolute value of the wavefunction for the unpaired electron, evaluated at the nucleus (r = 0). Now it should be recalled that only s orbitals have a finite probability density at the nucleus whereas, p, d, or higher orbitals have nodes at the nucleus. This hyperfine term is isotropic because the s wavefunctions are spherically symmetric, and the interaction is evaluated at a point in space. 

This effect can be illustrated by Fig. 14.2. The effective range of local modification of the sample states is determined by the effective lateral dimension 4ff of the tip wavefunction, which also determines the lateral resolution. In analogy with the analytic result for the hydrogen molecular ion problem, the local modification makes the amplitude of the sample wavefunction increase by a factor exp( — Vi) 1.213, which is equivalent to inducing a localized state of radius r 4tf/2 superimposed on the unperturbed state of the solid surface. The local density of that state is about (4/e — 1) 0.47 times the local electron density of the original stale in the middle of the gap. This superimposed local state cannot be formed by Bloch states with the same energy eigenvalue. Because of dispersion (that is, the finite value of dEldk and... 

The vibrational overlap integrals play a key role in electron transfer. A region of vibrational overlap defines values of the normal coordinate where a finite probability exists for finding coordinates appropriate for both reactants and products. The greater the overlap, the greater the transition rate. The vibrational overlap integrals can be evaluated explicitly for harmonic oscillator wavefunctions. An example is shown in equation (26) for the overlap between an initial level with vibrational quantum number v = 0 to a level v = v where the frequency (and force constant) are taken to be the same before and after electron transfer. 

A Consequence of the Instability in First-order Properties.—Suppose a first-order property which is stable to small changes in the wavefunction (though is not necessarily close to the experimental value) is calculated to, say, three decimal places does an error in the fourth matter To provide a concrete example for discussion, a method described in the next section will be anticipated, namely the finite field method for calculating electric polarizability a. In this method a perturbation term Ai—— fix(F)Fa is added to the Hartree-Fock hamiltonian and an SCF wave-function calculated as usual. For small uniform fields,... 

The HF equations are approximate mainly because they treat electron-electron repulsion approximately (other approximations are mentioned in the answer suggested for Chapter 5, Harder Question 1). This repulsion is approximated as resulting from interaction between two charge clouds rather than correctly, as the force between each pair of point-charge electrons. The equations become more exact as one increases the number of determinants representing the wavefunctions (as well as the size of the basis set), but this takes us into post-Hartree-Fock equations. Solutions to the HF equations are exact because the mathematics of the solution method is rigorous successive iterations (the SCF method) approach an exact solution (within the limits of the finite basis set) to the equations, i.e. an exact value of the (approximate ) wavefunction l m.. 

A firm result will be this if the value of the function at a given neighborhood to a point on the surface is zero, whatever you do there will never be a spectral response derived from a quantum-mechanical interaction at that neighborhood no imprint mediated by the quantum state. Another one is that any finite value different from zero of the quantum state function at a given neighborhood of a point opens a possibility for a response from a properly sensitized surface that would reflect the wavefunction at that region (Cf. Eq. (3)). 

The total polaron bandwidth can be estimated by calculating in finite-site systems where some discrete values of k s, are available. In the two-site problem, if we write the ground-state wavefunction for a polaron localized at site j as I j, the... 

The problem of minimizing functions is ubiquitous in many different branches of science. It arises very naturally and rather directly in the electronic structure theory when the strategy adopted is variational for, the basic task in the variational approximation boils down to finding out values of a set of parameters present in the trial wavefunction (assuming expansion in terms of finite dimensional analytic... 

A computational approach of a very different nature, usually referred to as the boundary value method , introduces a multidimensional finite-difference mesh to directly solve the partial differential equations of reactive scattering This approach has been taken by Diestler and McKoy (1968) in work related to a previous one by Mortensen and Pitzer (1962). While the second authors used an iterative procedure to impose the physical boundary conditions of scattering, the more recent work constructs the wavefunction as a linear combination of independent functions Xj which satisfy the scattering equation for arbitrarily chosen boundary conditions. 

Even with AQ = 0 (Eg = 0), C is increased from its fixed value C(Qeqj by exp( L/ fflgj there is a finite probability of smaller H-bond separations even at low T due to Qs the zero point motion. The ratio E -JhcoQ identifies E i as a quantum energy scale for the localization of the Q wavefunction [1, 5]. When E ilhcoQ 1, the coupling C is essentially that for fixed Q,=Qeq. As Eai/ticoQ increases, C increases, corresponding to increased quantum accessibility of smaller Q values. 

These properties follow directly from the definition of the density and the usual normalization condition on the wavefunction. If we take into account that the density is obtained as the density of a bound eigenstate of Hamiltonian (1) we can derive further conditions. For this we put the physical constraint on the many-body system that it has a finite expectation value of the kinetic energy, i.e.,... 

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