Re:Super-Saturated Chemistry
by pdonis on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:48PM
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> the Hamiltonian is invariant under rotations
Yes, but that doesn't contradict what the article said. The article said, unpacking slightly, that the Hamiltonian operator does not commute with the "angular momentum of a single electron" operator. It only commutes with the "angular momentum of all the electrons taken together" operator.
Yes, but that doesn't contradict what the article said. The article said, unpacking slightly, that the Hamiltonian operator does not commute with the "angular momentum of a single electron" operator. It only commutes with the "angular momentum of all the electrons taken together" operator.