Abstract
The dimensionless zero-frequency intrinsic second hyperpolarizability was optimized for a single electron in a 1D well by adjusting the shape of the potential. Optimized potentials were found to have hyperpolarizabilities in the range ; potentials optimizing gamma were arbitrarily close to the lower bound and were within of the upper bound. All optimal potentials possess parity symmetry. Analysis of the Hessian of around the maximum reveals that effectively only a single parameter, one of those chosen in the piecewise linear representation adopted, is important to obtaining an extremum. Prospects for designing chromophores based on the design principle here elucidated are discussed.
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