Wave Function for Harmonically Confined Electrons in Time-Dependent Electric and Magnetostatic Fields

Authors

Hong-Ming Zhu, Ningbo University
Jin-Wang Chen, Ningbo University
Xiao-Yin Pan, Ningbo University
Viraht Sahni, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY Brooklyn CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-14-2014

Abstract

We derive via the interaction “representation” the many-body wave function for harmonically confined electrons in the presence of a magnetostatic field and perturbed by a spatially homogeneous time-dependent electric field—the Generalized Kohn Theorem (GKT) wave function. In the absence of the harmonic confinement – the uniform electron gas – the GKT wave function reduces to the Kohn Theorem wave function. Without the magnetostatic field, the GKTwave function is the Harmonic Potential Theorem wave function. We further prove the validity of the connection between the GKT wave function derived and the system in an accelerated frame of reference. Finally, we provide examples of the application of the GKT wave function.

Comments

This work was originally published in The Journal of Chemical Physics, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4858463