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Elementary Methods of Molecular Quantum Mechanics
Valerio Magnasco Digital Instant Download
Author(s): Valerio Magnasco
ISBN(s): 9780444527783, 0444527788
Edition: Elsevier
File Details: PDF, 4.71 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
Preface
This is a teaching book for graduate University students of Chemistry and Physics, where
emphasis is placed on the Methods of Quantum Mechanics from an elementary point of
view as applied to the theoretical study of the electronic structure of atoms and molecules.
It can be considered mostly as a book of applied mathematics. The book is intended not
as a treatise covering all aspects of applications to Chemistry and to many problems in
Molecular Physics, rather to present in the simplest possible self-contained way the mathe-
matical machinery needed for a critical understanding of what is implied in the black boxes
of the software which is today currently in use by chemists in this area. In a sense, the book
aims to bridge the gap between the classic Coulson’s Valence, where applications of wave
mechanical principles to valence theory is presented in a fully non-mathematical way, and
McWeeny’s Methods of Molecular Quantum Mechanics, where recent advances in the ap-
plication of quantum mechanical methods to molecular problems are presented at research
level in a full mathematical way. Many examples and mathematical points are given as
Problems at the end of each Chapter, with a hint for their solution. Solutions are worked
out in detail in the last Section of each Chapter. The required background for students of
Chemistry and Physics is that of a few courses in mathematics and physics.
The central idea is that the majority of the applications in the field of electronic molec-
ular structure rests on the fundamental expansion theorem of Quantum Mechanics, where
a well-behaved mathematical function is expanded into an appropriate basis of regular
functions. The expansion coefficients arising from the quantum mechanical operators rep-
resenting physical observables are then obtained in terms of matrix elements, so giving to
matrix algebra a fundamental role in applications. Truncation of the expansion gives rise
to finite matrices with matrix algebra replacing solution of differential equations. The Ritz
version of Rayleigh’s variation theorem, where integrals replace derivatives, is then the
building stone of any practical orbital application, and molecular orbitals and valence bond
methods stem directly from it. The content is divided into 13 Chapters.
After an axiomatic introduction of the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics (Chap-
ter 1), where atomic units are introduced from the beginning to get maximum simplifica-
tion in the mathematical expressions, a Chapter is devoted to elementary matrix methods
(Chapter 2) with emphasis on the solution of eigenvalue and pseudoeigenvalue problems.
Chapters 3 and 4 contain, respectively, the application of the basic principles to the particle
in the box and the atomic 1-electron (or hydrogen-like) system. It is believed that these two
examples are exhaustive enough to explain in detail the general techniques of solution of
the exactly solvable Schroedinger eigenvalue equations. The methods described in Chap-
ter 4 can be used either for the free atom or the atom in a field (see Chapter 11), and allow
us to introduce from first principles the quantum numbers characterizing those particular
atomic orbitals (AOs) known as hydrogen-like orbitals. The Chapter ends with a general-
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xvi Preface
ization to Slater (STO) and Gaussian (GTO) AOs which are mostly used today in quantum
chemical calculations.
The variation method is next introduced in Chapter 5 as the most powerful way of pro-
ceeding to working approximations, and simple atomic and molecular examples are dis-
cussed there in some detail, with a short outline of the method due to Wentzel–Kramers–
Brillouin (WKB). Simple Pauli spin methods for treating electrons and nuclei of spin 1/2
are given in Chapter 6 as a prerequisite to the following Chapter 7. Besides the simple
matrix approach, both Kotani and Löwdin methods are introduced to some extent.
In Chapter 7 the many-electron wavefunctions needed to deal properly with complex
quantum mechanical systems are discussed together with their reduction in terms of den-
sity functions and density matrices. All techniques described there are based on the Slater
method of writing antisymmetric wavefunctions in the form of determinants, the indepen-
dent particle model (IPM) being assumed to be central to the discussion of many-electron
systems. The Hartree–Fock (HF) method is then introduced as the middle step of a ladder
having Hall–Roothaan LCAO-MO-SCF methods below it up to semiempirical and Hückel
methods, and post-HF methods above it, from CI and MC-SCF to various many–body per-
turbation and variational techniques such as MP2 and M2-R12, up to recent CCSD-R12.
Some space is also devoted to non-orbital approaches, to a short outline of second quanti-
zation as alternative to the Slater method, and to the principles of functional density (FDT)
techniques.
Chapter 8 describes how symmetry can be used for simplifying molecular calculations
mostly using matrix methods inside elementary group theory. An outline of continuous and
symmetric groups completes the Chapter.
Chapter 9 contains a short introduction on the vector model and on how many-electron
wavefunctions of the correct angular symmetry can be derived for atoms, ending with an
explanation of the various coupling coefficients and symbols needed in more advanced
work on angular momentum.
The investigation of the chemical bond inside the orbital model, mostly through valence
bond (VB) methods, is presented in Chapter 10 with applications to a few simple organic
and inorganic molecules. Because of his historical and didactical importance, an unusual
space is devoted to the classical work by Pauling on conjugated and aromatic molecules,
including the meaning of the important word “resonance”, still today largely in use among
organic chemists. It is also shown there that useful information on electron and spin den-
sity distributions in hydrocarbons can be obtained in some cases without doing effective
energy calculations. Hybridization and its consequences on the study of directed valency
in polyatomic molecules is examined next, with a short outline of recent advances in the
theory allowing for ab-initio VB calculations.
Stationary Rayleigh–Schroedinger (RS) perturbation methods, the other fundamental
technique of approximation in Molecular Quantum Mechanics, are postponed until Chap-
ter 11, where emphasis is given to the Ritz variational approximations for second-order
energies in terms of linear pseudostates. Detailed applications are given in this Chapter on
the electric properties of atoms and molecules in view of their further use in the problem
of molecular interactions.
Chapter 12 is concerned with the application of RS and MS-MA (Murrell–Shaw–
Musher–Amos) perturbation methods to the direct study of atomic and molecular inter-
Preface xvii
actions over the entire range of intermolecular separations, from the region of the chemical
bond to that of the Van der Waals (VdW) bond. The study is first focused on the sim-
plest model systems H–H+ and H–H, with the Heitler–London theory of H2 considered
as a first-order perturbation theory including exchange, then extending the understanding
of the physical nature of the interaction between many-electron molecules using charge
density operators and density matrix techniques. The Chapter ends with a short discussion
of the VdW bond which occurs at long range between closed-shell atoms and molecules.
Lastly, as a preliminary to all energy computations in terms of orbitals having the cor-
rect radial behaviour, methods for the evaluation of molecular integrals over STOs are
considered in Chapter 13, where all 1- and 2-electron integrals over 1s STOs for the H–H
interaction are evaluated in an elementary way, including the difficult 2-centre 2-electron
exchange integral. An outline of the possible ways of calculation of the general 2-centre in-
tegrals and some consideration of the 3-centre nuclear attraction and the 4-centre 2-electron
integral over 1s STOs conclude this Chapter.
An extensive set of alphabetically ordered references is presented at the end, with par-
ticular attention to the fundamental contributions from all pioneers of the subject, mostly
on the side of Physics. Author index and Subject index complete the book.
Finally, I wish to thank the many persons who aided me to complete the book, in the
first place Dr. Camilla Costa for her suggestions and her essential help in preparing the
electronic files, next my young granddaughter Laura who patiently prepared the drawings
at the computer and my son Mario who revised them, up to Professors Michele Battezzati,
Giuseppe Figari and Gian Franco Musso for their useful discussions on many aspects of the
subject, and to all my former students over the many years of teaching in the Department
of Chemistry of the University of Genoa. Special thanks are due to my old friend and
Colleague Dr. Deryk Wynn Davies, who helped me by reading the manuscript and revising
my English. Of course, the responsibility of all contents and possible mistakes is mine, and
I will appreciate much all who contribute to detecting them.
Valerio Magnasco
The forces keeping together electrons and nuclei in atoms and molecules are essentially
electrostatic in nature, and, at the microscopic level, satisfy the principles of quantum me-
chanics. Experimental evidence (Karplus and Porter, 1970) brings us to formulate a plan-
etary model of the atom (Rutherford1 ) made by a point-like nucleus (with a diameter of
0.01–0.001 pm) carrying the whole mass and the whole positive charge +Ze, surrounded
by electrons, each having a negative elementary charge −e and a mass about 2000 times
smaller than that of proton, carrying the whole negative charge −N e of the atom (N = Z
for neutral atoms) distributed as a charge-cloud in an atomic volume with a diameter of
about 100 pm. The distribution of the electrons is apparent from the density contours
1 Rutherford Ernest (Lord) 1871–1937, English physicist, Professor at the Universities of Montreal, Manchester,
Cambridge and London. 1908 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1
2 1. Basic Principles of Quantum Mechanics
obtained from X-ray diffraction spectra of polycyclic hydrocarbons (Bacon, 1969). The
electron density in atoms can be described in terms of atomic orbitals (AOs), which are
one-electron functions ψ(r) depending on a single centre (the nucleus of the atom), while
electron density in molecules can be described in terms of molecular orbitals (MOs), many-
centre one-electron functions depending on the different nuclei of the molecule. This is the
basis for the so called orbital model, with which the majority of applications is concerned.
The physical meaning of ψ(r) is such that:
where integration is extended over all space, and ψ ∗ is the complex conjugate to ψ :
|ψ|2 = ψ ∗ ψ . This implies some physical restrictions on the form of the mathematical
functions ψ(r) (single valued, continuity of the function with its first derivatives, quadratic
integrability) that are obtained as permissible solutions of a variety of eigenvalue equations
which can be traced back to some space form of Schroedinger2 type differential equations.
For a single electron the equation can be written:
Ĥ ψ = Eψ, (3)
where Ĥ is the total energy operator (Hamilton3 or Hamiltonian operator), sum of the
kinetic energy and potential energy operators of the electron in the atom, and E is the
value assumed by the electron energy in state ψ.
For a deeper understanding of the physical foundations of the orbital model, we intro-
duce in the simplest way the basic principles of quantum mechanics (Margenau, 1961),
which is needed for a correct physical description of the subatomic world.
The simplest formulation of quantum mechanical principles is in the form of three postu-
lates.
2 Schroedinger Erwin 1887–1961, Austrian physicist, Professor at the Universities of Breslav, Zürich, Berlin,
Oxford and Dublin. 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics.
3 Hamilton William Rowan (Sir) 1806–1865, Irish mathematical physicist, Professor of astronomy at the Uni-
versity of Dublin.
1.2 The Fundamental Postulates of Quantum Mechanics 3
h ∂ ∂
x ⇒ x̂ = x· px ⇒ p̂x = = −i h̄ , (4)
2πi ∂x ∂x
where x is the position coordinate, px the x-component of the linear momentum, p̂x the
corresponding
√ quantum mechanical operator, h̄ = h/2π the reduced Planck5 constant, and
i = −1 the imaginary unit (i 2 = −1). The like holds for the remaining y and z compo-
nents. The caret ˆ symbol will be henceforth used to denote operators.
Def. An operator is a rule (denoted by Â) that transforms a function into another func-
tion (e.g. Â = ∂/∂x, the first partial derivative; Â = ∂ 2 /∂x 2 , the second partial derivative,
etc.). Âψ must hence be intended as a new function, as a whole, so that Âψ/ψ will never
be simplified by eliminating ψ ! We shall see later the properties of linear and Hermitian
operators.
In 3-dimensions:
∂ ∂ ∂
∇ =i +j +k the gradient operator in (7)
∂x ∂y ∂z Cartesian coordinates.
Examples of further observables.
px2 h̄2 ∂ 2
x-component of the kinetic energy T= ⇒ T̂ = − .
2m 2m ∂x 2
of a particle of mass m
In 3-dimensions:
1 h̄2 2
T= (px2 + py2 + pz2 ) ⇒ T̂ = − ∇ , (8)
2m 2m
where:
∂2 ∂2 ∂2
∇2 = ∇ · ∇ = + + (9)
∂x 2 ∂y 2 ∂z2
4 Hermite Charles 1822–1901, French mathematician, Professor at the Sorbonne, Member of the Académie des
Sciences.
5 Planck Max 1858–1947, German physicist, Professor at the Universities of Kiel and Berlin. 1918 Nobel Prize
for Physics.
4 1. Basic Principles of Quantum Mechanics
is the Laplacian6 operator, and the dot stands for the scalar product.
h̄2 2
Total energy ⇒ Total energy operator Ĥ = − ∇ + V, (10)
2m
(Hamiltonian operator)
p̂x2 h̄2 d 2
V =0 Ĥ = T̂ = =− (11)
2m 2m dx 2
kinetic energy only.
(ii) One-dimensional harmonic oscillator.
kx 2 h̄2 d 2 kx 2
V= Ĥ = − + , (12)
2 2m dx 2 2
where k is the force constant.
(iii) Angular momentum of a particle of linear momentum p and vector position r.
i j k
L = r × p = x y z
px py pz
i j k
x y z
L̂ = r × (−i h̄∇) = −i h̄ = iL̂x + jL̂y + kL̂z (14)
∂ ∂ ∂
∂x ∂y ∂z
L̂x = −i h̄(y ∂z
∂
− z ∂y
∂
) L̂y = −i h̄(z ∂x
∂
− x ∂z
∂
)
(15)
L̂z = −i h̄(x ∂y
∂
− y ∂x
∂
),
where the cross stands for the vector product of two vectors, and the cyclic permutation
(x → y → z) of indices should be noted. We then have for the square of the angular mo-
mentum operator in Cartesian coordinates:
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