Electrostatic multipole contributions to the binding energy of electrons
arXiv:2210.13986 · doi:10.1016/j.comptc.2023.114058
Abstract
The interaction of an electron with a local static charge distribution (e.g., an atom or molecule) is dominated at large distances by the radial 1/r Coulomb potential. The second order effect comes from the non-central electric dipole contribution cos(theta)/r^2. Moreover, the third order effect is due to the electric quadrupole potential, [3*cos^2(theta)-1]/2*r^3. We use the tridiagonal representation approach to give a reasonably accurate account for the combined effects of all these contributions to the binding energy of the electron but with an effective quadrupole interaction. As an application, we obtain the bound states of a valence electron in an atom with both electric dipole and quadrupole moments.
16 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.03349