In view of the coming availability of magnetic field strengths in the regime B f 100 T at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, we present a brief overview of some relevant problems associated with molecular systems in strong magnetic fields. Both perspectives for future resear
Ground states of atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields
β Scribed by P. Schmelcher
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Volume
- 70
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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β¦ Synopsis
The ground states of small atoms and molecules, namely those of the hydrogen, helium, and lithium atoms and the hydrogen molecular ion and hydrogen molecule, are studied in the presence of an external magnetic field. For the one-electron systems the ground state is of the same symmetry for arbitrary field strengths, and the corresponding binding energy shows a monotonic increase with increasing field strength. More interesting, the two-and three-electron systems show ground-state transitions which involve both transitions in the spin multiplicity and spatial quantum numbers. An outlook on the expected cascade of transitions in many electron atoms and molecules is provided.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The ground-state density amplitude r for atoms and molecules Ε½ . satisfies a Schrodinger equation in which the customary one-body potential energy V r Β¨Ε½ . of density functional theory is supplemented by the addition of the Pauli potential V r . p Since neither the exchangeαcorrelation potential V o