Issue 6, 2018

Toward a muon-specific electronic structure theory: effective electronic Hartree–Fock equations for muonic molecules

Abstract

An effective set of Hartree–Fock (HF) equations are derived for electrons of muonic systems, i.e., molecules containing a positively charged muon, conceiving the muon as a quantum oscillator, which are completely equivalent to the usual two-component HF equations used to derive stationary states of the muonic molecules. In these effective equations, a non-Coulombic potential is added to the orthodox coulomb and exchange potential energy terms, which describes the interaction of the muon and the electrons effectively and is optimized during the self-consistent field cycles. While in the two-component HF equations a muon is treated as a quantum particle, in the effective HF equations it is absorbed into the effective potential and practically transformed into an effective potential field experienced by electrons. The explicit form of the effective potential depends on the nature of muon's vibrations and is derivable from the basis set used to expand the muonic spatial orbital. The resulting effective Hartree–Fock equations are implemented computationally and used successfully, as a proof of concept, in a series of muonic molecules containing all atoms from the second and third rows of the Periodic Table. To solve the algebraic version of the equations muon-specific Gaussian basis sets are designed for both muon and surrounding electrons and it is demonstrated that the optimized exponents are quite distinct from those derived for the hydrogen isotopes. The developed effective HF theory is quite general and in principle can be used for any muonic system while it is the starting point for a general effective electronic structure theory that incorporates various types of quantum correlations into the muonic systems beyond the HF equations.

Graphical abstract: Toward a muon-specific electronic structure theory: effective electronic Hartree–Fock equations for muonic molecules

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Nov 2017
Accepted
10 Jan 2018
First published
26 Jan 2018

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018,20, 4466-4477

Toward a muon-specific electronic structure theory: effective electronic Hartree–Fock equations for muonic molecules

M. Rayka, M. Goli and S. Shahbazian, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 4466 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP07599E

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