Journal
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Volume 118, Issue 19-20, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2020.1730989
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Funding
- Royal Society of New Zealand [14-MAU-034]
- Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation
- Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland
- Academy of Finland [275845, 314821]
- Norwegian Research Council (Norges Forskningsrad) through the CoE Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences [262695]
- Slovak Research and Development Agency (Agentura na Podporu Vyskumu a Vyvoja) [APVV-15-0105]
- Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic (Vedecka Grantova Agentura MSVVaS SR a SAV) [1/0777/19]
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We present a detailed non-relativistic study of the atoms H, He, C and K and the molecule CH in the centre of a spherical soft confinement potential of the form with stiffness parameter N and confinement radius . The soft confinement potential approaches the hard-wall limit as , giving a more detailed picture of spherical confinement. The confined hydrogen atom is considered as a base model: it is treated numerically to obtain ground- and excited-state energies and nodal positions of the eigenstates to study the convergence towards the hard-wall limit. We also derive some important analytical relations. The use of Gaussian basis sets is analysed. We find that, for increasing stiffness parameter N, the convergence towards the basis-set limit becomes problematic. As an application, we report dipole polarisabilities for different values of N and of hydrogen. For helium, we determine electron correlation effects with varying N and , and discuss the virial theorem for both soft and hard confinements in the limit . For carbon, a change in the orbital population from 2s2p to 2s2 is observed with decreasing , while, for potassium, we observe a change from the S to D ground state at small values. For CH, we show that the one-particle density becomes more spherical with increasing confinement. A possible application of soft confinement to atoms and molecules under high pressure is discussed Prof. Jurgen Gauss observing Schrodinger's cat under quantum confinement. [GRAPHICS] .
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