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Ionization potentials and conditional amplitudes
Author(s) -
Hunter Geoffrey
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.560090839
Subject(s) - amplitude , ionization , wave function , factorization , electron ionization , ion , atomic physics , limit (mathematics) , function (biology) , electron , residual , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , algorithm , evolutionary biology , biology
A procedure for deriving ionization potentials is presented based upon the factorization of a wave function into the product of a conditional amplitude and a one‐electron marginal amplitude. In the asymptotic limit as one electron is removed, the conditional amplitude becomes the wave function of the residual positive ion, so that successive ionization potentials can be generated in sequence by the same procedure.