Abstract

It is shown that energy/length scaling complicates maximizing the first hyperpolarizability of a single electron as a function of the potential. A more transparent formula for this hyperpolarizability is given. Examining this formula demonstrates that Zhou et al. ¹ have not proved that modulated conjugation results in large hyperpolarizability.

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