Simulation of the electron density distribution of hydrogen #br# molecules by the variational method coupled with the Julia language#br#

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  • College of Physics and Electronic Information, Inner Mongolia Normal University,
    Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010022, China

Received date: 2025-03-26

  Revised date: 2025-05-21

  Online published: 2026-06-04

Abstract

Based on the variational principle of quantum mechanics, this study applied the Heitler-London valence bond theory to the hydrogen molecule wave function after parameter optimization. Through the high-performance computing framework of the Julia language (the multi-threading parallel and vectorization optimization techniques increased the overall computing efficiency by 6 times, and the @fastmath macro further reduced the computational cost by 15 %), the electron cloud distribution law of the hydrogen molecule system was systematically explored. The results show that at the equilibrium bond length (R = 1.4 atomic units), the peak value of the electron density between the nuclei reaches 0.35 a.u.-3, presenting typical covalent bond characteristics; when the nuclear distance increases to R = 3.0 atomic units, the electron density between the atoms approaches zero, corresponding to the molecular dissociation process.


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XIE Yaqi, WANG Xinming, DU Qiuying . Simulation of the electron density distribution of hydrogen #br# molecules by the variational method coupled with the Julia language#br#[J]. College Physics, 2026 , 45(3) : 91 . DOI: 10.16854/j.cnki.1000-0712.250162

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