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A note on the criterion of maximum overlapping of wave functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. A. Coulson
Affiliation:
Trinity College

Extract

The criterion of maximum overlapping, as developed by Pauling and Slater, is shown to be true only under certain conditions, depending on the relative positions of three term values, and the relation of the true energy to these three subsidiary ones is discussed in some detail.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1937

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