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All-order relativistic computations for atoms and molecules using an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis

Quantum Physics 2024-06-19 v1 Chemical Physics

Abstract

A variational solution procedure is reported for the many-particle no-pair Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian aiming at a parts-per-billion (ppb) convergence of the atomic and molecular energies, described within the fixed nuclei approximation. The procedure is tested for nuclear charge numbers from Z=1Z=1 (hydrogen) to 2828 (iron). Already for the lowest ZZ values, a significant difference is observed from leading-order Foldy-Woythusen perturbation theory, but the observed deviations are smaller than the estimated self-energy and vacuum polarization corrections.

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@article{arxiv.2103.04923,
  title  = {All-order relativistic computations for atoms and molecules using an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis},
  author = {Péter Jeszenszki and Dávid Ferenc and Edit Mátyus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04923},
  year   = {2024}
}
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