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Non-Born-Oppenheimer nuclear and electronic densities for a three-particle Hooke-Coulomb model

  • C. G. Rodríguez
  • , A. S. Urbina
  • , F. J. Torres
  • , D. Cazar
  • , E. V. Ludeña*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Universidad San Francisco de Quito
  • Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
  • Prometheus Program

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Abstract

Non-Born-Oppenheimer, nBO, one-particle nuclear and electron densities for a Hooke-Coulomb model of a three-body system are presented. These densities are obtained using exact closed-form analytic solutions to this problem as well as variational solutions. Moreover, the densities are calculated using different reference points, such as the global center of mass [. cm], the geometric centers between both identical [. gc12] and non-identical particles [. cm13], and the location of the non-identical particle [. p3]. It is shown that the topology of these nBO densities depends upon the choice of the reference points. This result is in turn used to argue that in a nBO regime the topological properties of the one-particle density cannot be univocally correlated with molecular structure, in the way it is done for the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)26-34
Number of pages9
JournalComputational and Theoretical Chemistry
Volume1018
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Aug 2013

Keywords

  • Hooke-Coulomb model
  • Non-Born-Oppenheimer
  • One-particle densities

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