Proof of stability of the hydrogen molecule
- 30 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (9) , 1332-1334
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.1332
Abstract
We sketch two rigorous proofs of the stability of the hydrogen molecule in quantum mechanics. The first one is based on an extrapolation of variational estimates of the ground state energy of a positronium molecule to arbitrary mass ratios. The second one is an extension of Heitler-London theory to nuclei of finite mass.Keywords
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