โ Scribed by C.A. Ten Seldam; S.R. De Groot
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The helium atom, enclosed in a spherical box of radius r 0' has been used as a model of compressed helium. From wave functions for this model, the polarizability is calculated as a function of r 0 and the corresponding pressure. It is found that at 1000 atmospheres the polarizability is diminished by about 51o/ 2 /O"
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
In the problem of the "compressed helium atom", the boundary condition that the wave function ~0 must vanish at infinity (1" : oo), is replaced by : ~ = 0 at a finite r = r o. This problem is solved by a variational method, which for the limiting case of the free atom.(ro--+ oo) coincideswith one of
In the problem of the "compressed hydrogen atom" the boundary condition that the wave function 9 must be zero for infinite r, is replaced by the condition that o must have a zero point at a finite r = r 0. This leads to an investigation of properties of the zeros of the confluent hypergeometric func