KOSCHANY, A and KUFFER, J and OBERMAIR, GM and PLESSNER, K (1994) ON THE STABILITY OF CHIRAL MOLECULES IN A NONLINEAR WAVE-MECHANICS. PHYSICS LETTERS A, 185 (4). pp. 412-416. ISSN 0375-9601,
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The stationary states of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation, e.g. that by Bialynicki-Birula and Mycielski (BBM), need not be eigenfunctions of the operators that correspond to the symmetry group of the potential. As an example we treat Hund's problem: the ground state for a particle in a symmetric double well with large barrier. When the BBM nonlinearity parameter b approaches the small energy splitting delta between the symmetric and the antisymmetric states (in the linear theory), we find a rather sharp transition from defined parity to defined chirality (in the nonlinear theory), i.e. permanent localization in one of the wells. A sequence of molecules with steadily decreasing delta should exhibit this transition to stable chirality and allow an estimate of b.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | OPTICAL-ACTIVITY; TIME-DEPENDENCE; |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 08:40 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/53455 |
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