Non-physical consequences of the Muffin-tin -- type intra-molecular potential

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Abstract

We demonstrate that in the frame of muffin-tin -- like potential non-physical peculiarities appear in molecular photoionization cross-sections and other characteristics of this process that are a consequence of ``jumps'' in the potential and discontinuous of its derivative at some radius. The role of the size of this ``jumps'' is illustrated by choosing three values of the size of potential ``jumps''. The result obtained are tightly connected to the studied previously effect of the influence of non-analytical behavior of the potential acting upon a particle $U(r)$as a function of $r$on its photoionization cross-section. In reality, such potential has to be an analytic in magnitude and first derivative function of $r$. Introduction of non-analytic features in model $U(r)$leads to non-physical features in the corresponding cross-section -- oscillations, additional maxima etc. It is demonstrated here in the frame of a model of hydrogen atom surrounded by a barrier that for reasonable values of it leads to non-physical oscillations that are almost as strong as physical oscillations in the two-atomic molecule photoionization cross-section.

Authors

  • Miron Ya Amusia

    • Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
    • Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University
    • Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia and Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University, Israel and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Arkadiy Baltenkov

    • Arifov Institute of Electronics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan