Exchange energy of alkali-metal dimer cations calculated from the atomic polarizability with the Holstein-Herring method

Abstract
A formula relating the dipole polarizability and the exchange energy is derived for alkali-metal dimer cations. The theory is based on the fact that the unsymmetrized polarized wave function gives both the polarizability and the exchange energy through the Holstein-Herring integral. The results are seen to be remarkably accurate for large interatomic distances.