Comments on explicitly correlated wave functions for the ground state of the helium atom

1 October 1977

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 16 (4) , 1740-1742
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.16.1740

Abstract

Several comments are made on Radi's computation of standard Hylleraas-type wave functions for the ground state of the helium atom. It is shown that the 125-term wave function yields a variational energy of -2.903 724 343 a.u. and not -2.903 724 371 a.u.

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