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Nonrelativistic energy levels of helium atom

Atomic Physics 2018-10-29 v1

Abstract

The nonrelativistic ionization energy levels of a helium atom are calculated for SS, PP, DD and FF states. The calculations are based on the variational method of "exponential" expansion. The convergence of the calculated energy levels is studied as a function of the number of basis functions NN. This allows us to claim that the obtained energy values (including the values for the states with a nonzero angular momentum) are accurate up to 28-35 significant digits. Calculations of the nonrelativistic ionization energy of the negative hydrogen ion H^- are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1810.11288,
  title  = {Nonrelativistic energy levels of helium atom},
  author = {D. T. Aznabaev and A. K. Bekbaev and Vladimir I. Korobov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11288},
  year   = {2018}
}

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