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Physical origins of high-order nonadiabatic molecular electric polarizabilities: Application to a twentieth-order perturbation study of H/sub 2/ /sup +/

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. A; (United States)

It is demonstrated theoretically for arbitrary diatomic molecules (and atoms) and verified numerically with a twentieth-order perturbation study of the Stark effect for the ground state of H/sub 2/ /sup +/ that high-order nonadiabatic electric polarizabilities in each order result from the delicate partial balancing of larger opposing perturbational shifts in their kinetic, nuclear-potential, and field-potential components, where the relative magnitudes and signs of these component shifts can be precisely determined by general a priori relationships. This method of analysis, based upon a combination of the Stark virial, Hellmann-Feynman, and remainder theorems, and implemented via the perturbational-variational Rayleigh-Ritz formalism, provides a novel mechanism for studying in detail the physical origins of molecular polarizabilities.

Research Organization:
Department of Chemistry, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
OSTI ID:
7104914
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. A; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. A; (United States) Vol. 34:6; ISSN PLRAA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English