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Corrections to the Nonrelativistic Ground Energy of a Helium Atom

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Considering the nuclear motion, the authors give out the nonrelativistic ground energy of a helium atom by using a simple but effective variational wave function with a flexible parameter kk. Based on this result, the relativistic and radiative corrections to the nonrelativistic Hamiltonian are discussed. The high precision value of the helium ground energy is evaluated to be -2.90338 a.u., and the relative error is 0.00034%.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0511193,
  title  = {Corrections to the Nonrelativistic Ground Energy of a Helium Atom},
  author = {Yi-Shi Duan and Yu-Xiao Liu and Li-Jie Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0511193},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, no figures, 2 tables