a Department of Physics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal, India
b Department of Physics, Tasi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
c Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada
Abstract:
Dipole polarizability of hydrogen atom at high pressures is investigated using the model of a trapped atom inside a spherical box with impenetrable surface. Both upper and lower bounds for the polarizability are obtained using accurate variational wavefunctions proposed recently. Buckingham polarizabilities calculated from the 1s state wavefunction are shown to be in good agreement with those calculated from the exact values of rn for cage radii less than 2.5.