Subject: Physical Chemistry · Chapter: Quantum Chemistry · Topic: Harmonic Oscillator · Exam: NET JUNE 2014 · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium
A particle in a one dimensional harmonic oscillator in x-direction is perturbed by a potential $\lambda \mathrm{x}(\lambda$ is number). The first-order correction to the energy of the ground state
(a)is zero
(b)is negative
(c)is positive
(d)may be negative or positive but not zero
Answer
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