| Abstract: | A hydrogen molecule near a hard wall was considered within the Heiteler–London method using the atomic orbits in the presence of the wall. Rapidly converging expansions of the atomic wave functions were proposed. The asymptotics were obtained and studied. The atomic dipole moment induced by the surface gave rise to a long-range interatomic interaction. The covalent bond length increased near the wall. Depending on the orientation relative to the wall, the potential well can vanish. It is interpreted as an interaction between the atomic dipole moments. An approximation of the interatomic potential was proposed. |
