Simplified Hartree-Fock Computations on Second-Row Atoms

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Modern computational quantum chemistry has developed largely from applications of the Hartree–Fock method to atoms and molecules [1–3]. A simple representation of a many-electron atom is given by a Slater determinant constructed from occupied spin-orbitals:
Contributed by: S. M. Blinder (October 2017)
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Following are results for optimized functions ,
and
. For comparison we also include results from the best Hartree-Fock computations and the exact atomic ground-state energies.
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[1] S. M. Blinder, "Simplified Hartree-Fock Computations on Second-Row Atoms," https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07018
[2] A. Szabo and N. S. Ostlund, Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory, Mineola, NY: Dover, 1996.
[3] S. M. Blinder, "Introduction to the Hartree–Fock Method," in Mathematical Physics in Theoretical Chemistry (S. M. Blinder and J. E. House, eds.), Elsevier, 2018.
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