Quantum Mechanical Dipole Operator
Consider a collection of N particles with charges qi and position vectors ri. For instance, this collection may be a molecule consisting of electrons, all with charge −e, and nuclei with charge eZi, where Zi is the atomic number of the i th nucleus. The physical quantity (observable) dipole has the quantum mechanical dipole operator:
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