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Hydrogen atom
Hydrogen-1
Full table General Name, symbol Neutrons Protons protium, 1H 0 1 Nuclide data Natural abundance 99.985% Half-life Isotope mass Spin Excess energy Binding energy Stable 1.007825u + 7,288.9690.001keV 00keV
A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen. The electrically neutral atom contains a single positively charged proton and a single negatively charged electron bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force. Atomic hydrogen constitutes about 75% of the elemental mass of the universe.[1] (Most of the universe's mass is not in the form of chemical elementsthat is, "baryonic" matterbut is made up of dark matter and dark energy.) In everyday life on Earth, isolated hydrogen atoms (usually called "atomic hydrogen" or, more precisely, "monatomic hydrogen") are extremely rare. Instead, hydrogen tends to combine with other atoms in compounds, or with itself to form ordinary (diatomic) Depiction of a hydrogen atom showing the diameter as about twice the Bohr model radius. (Image not to scale) hydrogen gas, H2. "Atomic hydrogen" and "hydrogen atom" in ordinary English use have overlapping meanings. For example, a water molecule contains two hydrogen atoms, but does not contain atomic hydrogen (which would refer to isolated hydrogen atoms).
Hydrogen atom
Isotopes
The most abundant isotope, hydrogen-1, protium, or light hydrogen, contains no neutrons; other isotopes of hydrogen, such as deuterium or tritium, contain one or more neutrons. The formulas below are valid for all three isotopes of hydrogen, but slightly different values of the Rydberg constant (correction formula given below) must be used for each hydrogen isotope.
Hydrogen atom Note that the maximum value of the angular momentum quantum number is limited by the principal quantum number: it can run only up to n 1, i.e. = 0, 1, ..., n 1. Due to angular momentum conservation, states of the same but different m have the same energy (this holds for all problems with rotational symmetry). In addition, for the hydrogen atom, states of the same n but different are also degenerate (i.e. they have the same energy). However, this is a specific property of hydrogen and is no longer true for more complicated atoms which have a (effective) potential differing from the form 1/r (due to the presence of the inner electrons shielding the nucleus potential). Taking into account the spin of the electron adds a last quantum number, the projection of the electron's spin angular momentum along the z-axis, which can take on two values. Therefore, any eigenstate of the electron in the hydrogen atom is described fully by four quantum numbers. According to the usual rules of quantum mechanics, the actual state of the electron may be any superposition of these states. This explains also why the choice of z-axis for the directional quantization of the angular momentum vector is immaterial: an orbital of given and m obtained for another preferred axis z can always be represented as a suitable superposition of the various states of different m (but same l) that have been obtained for z.
where is the fine-structure constant and j is a number (eigenvalue) that represents the total angular momentum, which is equal to 1/2 depending on the direction of the electron spin. The factor in square brackets in the last expression is nearly one; the extra term arises from relativistic effects (for details, see #Features going beyond the Schrdinger solution). The value
is called the Rydberg constant and was first found from the Bohr model as given by
Hydrogen atom
where me is the electron mass, e is the elementary charge, h is the Planck constant, and 0 is the vacuum permittivity. This constant is often used in atomic physics in the form of the Rydberg unit of energy:
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The exact value of the Rydberg constant above assumes that the nucleus is infinitely massive with respect to the electron. For hydrogen-1, hydrogen-2 (deuterium), and hydrogen-3 (tritium) the constant must be slightly modified to use the reduced mass of the system, rather than simply the mass of the electron. However, since the nucleus is much heavier than the electron, the values are nearly the same. The Rydberg constant RM for a hydrogen atom (one electron), R is given by: quantity where M is the mass of the atomic nucleus. For hydrogen-1, the
is about 1/1836 (i.e. the electron-to-proton mass ratio). For deuterium and tritium, the ratios are
about 1/3670 and 1/5497 respectively. These figures, when added to 1 in the denominator, represent very small corrections in the value of R, and thus only small corrections to all energy levels in corresponding hydrogen isotopes. Wavefunction The normalized position wavefunctions, given in spherical coordinates are:
where: , is the Bohr radius, is a generalized Laguerre polynomial of degree n 1, and is a spherical harmonic function of degree and order m. Note that the generalized Laguerre polynomials are defined differently by different authors. The usage here is consistent with the definitions used by Messiah,[8] and Mathematica.[9] In other places, the Laguerre polynomial includes a factor of ,[10] or the generalized Laguerre polynomial appearing in the hydrogen wave function is instead. [11] The quantum numbers can take the following values:
Electrons in this state are 45% likely to be found within the solid body shown.
Additionally, these wavefunctions are normalized (i.e., the integral of their modulus square equals 1) and orthogonal:
where function.
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Hydrogen atom Angular momentum The eigenvalues for Angular momentum operator:
An image with more orbitals is also available (up to higher numbers n and ). Black lines occur in each but the first orbital: these are the nodes of the wavefunction, i.e. where the probability density is zero. (More precisely, the nodes are spherical harmonics that appear as a result of solving Schrdinger's equation in polar coordinates.) The quantum numbers determine the layout of these nodes.[13] There are: total nodes, of which are angular nodes: angular nodes go around the
cross-sections through the xz-plane.)
axis (in the xy plane). (The figure above does not show these nodes since it plots
(the remaining angular nodes) occur on the (vertical) axis. (the remaining non-angular nodes) are radial nodes.
Hydrogen atom spin. Both of these features (and more) are incorporated in the relativistic Dirac equation, with predictions that come still closer to experiment. Again the Dirac equation may be solved analytically in the special case of a two-body system, such as the hydrogen atom. The resulting solution quantum states now must be classified by the total angular momentum number j (arising through the coupling between electron spin and orbital angular momentum). States of the same j and the same n are still degenerate. There are always vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field, according to quantum mechanics. Due to such fluctuations degeneracy between states of the same j but different l is lifted, giving them slightly different energies. This has been demonstrated in the famous Lamb-Retherford experiment and was the starting point for the development of the theory of Quantum electrodynamics (which is able to deal with these vacuum fluctuations and employs the famous Feynman diagrams for approximations using perturbation theory). This effect is now called Lamb shift. For these developments, it was essential that the solution of the Dirac equation for the hydrogen atom could be worked out exactly, such that any experimentally observed deviation had to be taken seriously as a signal of failure of the theory. Due to the high precision of the theory also very high precision for the experiments is needed, which utilize a frequency comb. Hydrogen ion Hydrogen is not found without its electron in ordinary chemistry (room temperatures and pressures), as ionized hydrogen is highly chemically reactive. When ionized hydrogen is written as "H+" as in the solvation of classical acids such as hydrochloric acid, the hydronium ion, H3O+, is meant, not a literal ionized single hydrogen atom. In that case, the acid transfers the proton to H2O to form H3O+. Ionized hydrogen without its electron, or free protons, are common in the interstellar medium, and solar wind.
References
[2] Greenwood, N. N.; & Earnshaw, A. (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd Edn.), Oxford:Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-3365-4. [7] P.J. Mohr, B.N. Taylor, and D.B. Newell (2011), "The 2010 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants" (Web Version 6.0). This database was developed by J. Baker, M. Douma, and S. Kotochigova. Available: http:/ / physics. nist. gov/ constants. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Link to R (http:/ / physics. nist. gov/ cgi-bin/ cuu/ Value?ryd), Link to hcR (http:/ / physics. nist. gov/ cgi-bin/ cuu/ Value?rydhcev) [9] LaguerreL (http:/ / reference. wolfram. com/ mathematica/ ref/ LaguerreL. html). Wolfram Mathematica page [12] Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Griffiths 4.89 [13] Summary of atomic quantum numbers (http:/ / www. physics. byu. edu/ faculty/ durfee/ courses/ Summer2009/ physics222/ AtomicQuantumNumbers. pdf). Lecture notes. 28 July 2006
Books
Griffiths, David J. (1995). Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Prentice Hall. ISBN0-13-111892-7. Section 4.2 deals with the hydrogen atom specifically, but all of Chapter 4 is relevant. Bransden, B.H.; C.J. Joachain (1983). Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Longman. ISBN0-582-44401-2 tacos. Kleinert, H. (2009). Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, 4th edition, Worldscibooks.com (http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/7305.html), World Scientific, Singapore (also available online physik.fu-berlin.de (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/re.html#B8))
Hydrogen atom
External links
Physics of hydrogen atom on Scienceworld (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/HydrogenAtom.html) Interactive graphical representation of orbitals (http://webphysics.davidson.edu/faculty/dmb/hydrogen/) Applet which allows viewing of all sorts of hydrogenic orbitals (http://www.falstad.com/qmatom/) The Hydrogen Atom: Wave Functions, and Probability Density "pictures" (http://panda.unm.edu/Courses/ Finley/P262/Hydrogen/WaveFcns.html) Basic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom (http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~tim/open/hydrofin) "Research team takes image of hydrogen atom" Kyodo News, Friday, 5 November 2010 (includes image) (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101105a1.html)
Lighter: hydrogen atom is an Heavier: (none, lightest possible) isotope of hydrogen hydrogen-2 Decay product of: neutronium-1 helium-2 Decay chain of hydrogen atom Decays to: Stable
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