Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T01:57:13.706Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Adiabatic second-order energy derivatives in quantum mechanics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. Byers Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester

Abstract

The general equation for the adiabatic second-order derivative of the energy En of an eigenstate with respect to parameters λ and λ′ occurring in the Hamiltonian ℋ is

The applications of this equation to molecules (λ, λ′ = nuclear position coordinates) and to enclosed assemblies of interacting particles (λ = λ′ = volume) are discussed, and the classical analogue of the equation for a micro-canonical ensemble is derived.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1958

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

(1)Brown, W. B.Molecular Phys. 1 (1958), to appear.Google Scholar
(2)Brown, W. B.J. Chem. Phys. 28 (1958), to appear.Google Scholar
(3)Feynman, R. P.Phys. Rev. 56 (1939), 340.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(4)Frost, A. A. and Lykos, P. G.J. Chem. Phys. 25 (1956), 1299.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(5)Gibbs, J. W.Elementary principles in statistical mechanics (1902), chapter 14. Reprinted in Collected Works, 2 (Yale, 1948).Google Scholar
(6)Kramers, H. A.Proc. K. Akad. Wet. Amst. 30 (1927), 145.Google Scholar
(7)Longuet-Higgins, H. C.Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 235 (1956), 537.Google Scholar
(8)Longuet-Higgins, H. C. and Brown, D. A.J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 1 (1955), 60 and 352.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(9)Platt, J. R.J. Chem. Phys. 18 (1950), 932.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(10)Schiff, L. I.Quantum, mechanics (New York, 1955), chapter 7.Google Scholar
(11)Slater, J. C.J. Chem. Phys. 1 (1933), 687.CrossRefGoogle Scholar