Abstract
An analysis is made of the quantum-mechanical treatment of a crystal as a perturbed harmonic oscillator. The relative magnitudes of the elements of the Hamiltonian matrix with harmonic oscillator wave functions as a basis, are obtained for an anharmonic crystal. It is found that the harmonic oscillator wave functions are extremely poor approximations (in the ordinary sense) to the true wave functions.
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