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A potential energy surface is generally used within the adiabatic or Born-Oppenheimer approximation in quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to model chemical reactions and interactions in simple chemical and physical systems. The name comes from the fact that the total energy of an atom arrangement can be represented as a curve or multidimensional surface, with atomic positions as variables. The best visualization for a layman would be to think of a landscape, where going North-South and East- West are two independent variables, and the height of the land we are on would be the energy associated with a given value of such variables. There is a natural correspondence between potential energy surfaces as they exist and their application in potential theory, which associates and studies harmonic functions in relation to these surfaces. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 114.44.129.205
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