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Non-physical consequences of the Muffin-tin-type intra-molecular potential

Chemical Physics 2018-02-14 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate using a simple model that in the frame of muffin-tin - like potential non-physical peculiarities appear in molecular photoionization cross-sections that are a consequence of jumps in the potential and its first derivative at some radius. The magnitude of non-physical effects is of the same order as the physical oscillations in the cross-section of a two-atomic molecule. The role of the size of these jumps is illustrated by choosing three values of it. The results obtained are connected to the studied previously effect of non-analytical behavior as a function of r the potential V(r)acting upon a particle on its photoionization cross-section. In reality, such potential has to be analytic in magnitude and first derivative function in distance. Introduction of non-analytic features in model potential leads to non-physical features in the corresponding cross-section - oscillations, additional maxima etc.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.1529,
  title  = {Non-physical consequences of the Muffin-tin-type intra-molecular potential},
  author = {M. Ya. Amusia and A. S. Baltenkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1529},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures

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