Home Forums Hyperfine course electric quadrupole interaction from toy model to quantum The quadrupole term and the size of the nucleus

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    Jef Vermeiren
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    The relative energy difference between the monopole and the exact solution (or between the monopole and the monopole and quadrupole solution) becomes smaller for a smaller size of the nucleus compared to the electron cloud size. This is to be expected since a smaller nucleus will naturally have a smaller quadrupole moment and therefore a smaller quadrupole contribution in the energy.

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