Node and Nodless wavefunction?

  • Context: Graduate 
  • Thread starter Thread starter new_986
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Wavefunction
Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
3 replies · 2K views
new_986
Messages
39
Reaction score
0
Node and Nodless wavefunction?

What means Node and nodeless wave functions?

Nawzad A.
 
Physics news on Phys.org


ZapperZ said:
Do you know what "nodes" and "antinodes" are in standing waves?

Zz.

Yes I know that , I am reading about pseudopotentials and I had faced that ( nodless wavefunctions) but I couldn't imagine how they are?!
 


new_986 said:
Yes I know that , I am reading about pseudopotentials and I had faced that ( nodless wavefunctions) but I couldn't imagine how they are?!
Note that in the context of pseudopotentials "nodeless" means "without /radial/ nodes" (in the one-particle basis functions; and actually, not even that, only the nodes corresponding the the electrons which are actually absorbed in the ECP are removed). The wave function still maintains all the angular nodes which are resulting from the spherical harmonic perfactors of the atomic wave functions.