Molecular Schrödinger Equation. III. Calculation of Ground-State Energies by Extrapolation
- 1 September 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 41 (5) , 1336-1340
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1726070
Abstract
The problem of optimization of the parameters in a trial wavefunction can be approached through the minimization of the energy variance function, a procedure which offers certain important advantages over the customary one where the energy function itself is minimized. The use of an energy variance calculation further permits extrapolation to a more accurate approximation to the true energy than can be attained solely from a knowledge of the ordinary upper and lower bounds. Specific computational procedures are discussed.Keywords
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