Discrepancy between Theory and Experiment for the Compton Profile of Molecular Hydrogen

1 January 1972

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 5 (1) , 140-143
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.5.140

Abstract

The Compton profile of the ground state of molecular hydrogen is calculated using the Liu 39-configuration-interaction (CI) wave function to confirm the experimental results of Eisenberger. This is in contrast to previous theoretical results obtained with the Hartree-Fock and Das-Wahl CI wave functions. The merits of these wave functions and also the best-over-lap wave function are discussed.

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