Chapter 8: 65E (page 343)
What is the angle between and in a (a) and(b) state of hydrogen?
Short Answer
(a) The angle between L and S when they're aligned is .
(b) The angle between L and S when they're anti-aligned is .
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Chapter 8: 65E (page 343)
What is the angle between and in a (a) and(b) state of hydrogen?
(a) The angle between L and S when they're aligned is .
(b) The angle between L and S when they're anti-aligned is .
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A lithium atom has three electrons. These occupy individual particle states corresponding to the sets of four quantum numbers given by .
Using to represent the individual-particle states when occupied by particle . Apply the Slater determinant discussed in Exercise 42 to find an expression for an antisymmetric multiparticle state. Your answer should be sums of terms like .
Exercise 44 gives an antisymmetric multiparticle state for two particles in a box with opposite spins. Another antisymmetric state with spins opposite and the same quantum numbers is
Refer to these states as 1 and 11. We have tended to characterize exchange symmetry as to whether the state's sign changes when we swap particle labels. but we could achieve the same result by instead swapping the particles' stares, specifically theandin equation (8-22). In this exercise. we look at swapping only parts of the state-spatial or spin.
(a) What is the exchange symmetric-symmetric (unchanged). antisymmetric (switching sign). or neither-of multiparticle states 1 and Itwith respect to swapping spatial states alone?
(b) Answer the same question. but with respect to swapping spin states/arrows alone.
(c) Show that the algebraic sum of states I and II may be written
Where the left arrow in any couple represents the spin of particle 1 and the right arrow that of particle?
(d) Answer the same questions as in parts (a) and (b), but for this algebraic sum.
(e) ls the sum of states I and 11 still antisymmetric if we swap the particles' total-spatial plus spin-states?
(f) if the two particles repel each other, would any of the three multiparticle states-l. II. and the sum-be preferred?
Explain.
Assume that the spin-orbit interaction is not overwhelmed by an external magnetic field what isthe minimum angle the total angular momentum vector may make with the z -axis in a3state of hydrogen?
Show that the symmetric and anti symmetric combinations of andare solutions of the two. Particle Schrödinger equationof the same energy as, the unsymmetrized product.
To investigate the claim that lowerimplies lower f energy. consider a simple case: lithium. which has twoelectrons and alonevalence electron.
(a)First find the approximate orbit radius, in terms of. of anelectron orbiting three protons. (Refer to Section 7.8.)
(b) Assuming theelectrons shield/cancel out two of the protons in lithium's nucleus, the orbit radius of anelectron orbiting a net charge of just.
(c) Argue that lithium's valence electron should certainly have lower energy in a 25 state than in astale. (Refer Figure 7.15.)
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