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Computer-predicted ionization energy of carbon within 1 cm$^{-1}$ of the best experiment

Atomic Physics 2020-06-25 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Chemical Physics Computational Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that we can predict the first ionization energy of the carbon atom to within 0.872 cm1^{-1} of the experimental value. This is an improvement of more than a factor of 6.5 over the preceding best prediction in [Phys. Rev. A 81, 022503], and opens the door to achieving sub-cm1^{-1} accuracy for ab-initio predictions in larger elements of the periodic table.

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@article{arxiv.2006.13453,
  title  = {Computer-predicted ionization energy of carbon within 1 cm$^{-1}$ of the best experiment},
  author = {Nike Dattani and Giovanni LiManni and David Feller and Jacek Koput},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13453},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Supplementary Material: https://github.com/HPQC-LABS/Carbon/blob/master/extra/supp.pdf This paper was completed mainly in 2017 and has been available on GitHub since 2018: https://github.com/HPQC-LABS/Carbon