How Accurately Does the Free Complement Wave Function of a Helium Atom Satisfy the Schrodinger Equation?
How Accurately Does the Free Complement Wave Function of a Helium Atom Satisfy the Schrodinger Equation?
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.101.240406
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发表时间:
2008-12-12
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Nakatsuji, Hiroshi
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作者:
Nakashima, Hiroyuki;Nakatsuji, Hiroshi
The local energy defined by H psi/psi must be equal to the exact energy E at any coordinate of an atom or molecule, as long as the psi under consideration is exact. The discrepancy from E of this quantity is a stringent test of the accuracy of the calculated wave function. The H-square error for a normalized psi, defined by sigma(2)equivalent to , is also a severe test of the accuracy. Using these quantities, we have examined the accuracy of our wave function of a helium atom calculated using the free complement method that was developed to solve the Schrodinger equation. Together with the variational upper bound, the lower bound of the exact energy calculated using a modified Temple's formula ensured the definitely correct value of the helium fixed-nucleus ground state energy to be -2.903 724 377 034 119 598 311 159 245 194 4 a.u., which is correct to 32 digits.