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Studies on optimizing potential energy functions for maximal intrinsic hyperpolarizability

Optics 2009-11-13 v1 Chemical Physics

Abstract

We use numerical optimization to study the properties of (1) the class of one-dimensional potential energy functions and (2) systems of point charges in two-dimensions that yield the largest hyperpolarizabilities, which we find to be within 30% of the fundamental limit. We investigate the character of the potential energy functions and resulting wavefunctions and find that a broad range of potentials yield the same intrinsic hyperpolarizability ceiling of 0.709.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1687,
  title  = {Studies on optimizing potential energy functions for maximal intrinsic hyperpolarizability},
  author = {Juefei Zhou and Urszula B. Szafruga and David S. Watkins and Mark G. Kuzyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1687},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 9 figures