CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF POLARIZED-ORBITAL METHOD IN ATOMIC SCATTERING

被引:8
作者
MITTLEMAN, MH
PEACHER, JL
机构
[1] Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW | 1968年 / 173卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRev.173.160
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The method of polarized orbitals used in calculating electron-atom scattering amplitudes has two obvious flaws: the wave function is discontinuous, and the method is not variationally based. These are corrected in a somewhat arbitrary manner, and it is found that the results then depend upon a parameter of the theory sufficiently strongly that there are serious doubts about the predictive nature of the theory. © 1968 The American Physical Society.
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