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Spin-dependent terms of the Breit-Pauli Hamiltonian evaluated with an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis set for molecular computations

Chemical Physics 2025-09-03 v2

Abstract

This work collects the spin-dependent leading-order relativistic and quantum-electrodynamical corrections for the electronic structure of atoms and molecules within the non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics framework. We report the computation of perturbative corrections using an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis set, which allows high-precision computations for few-electron systems. In addition to numerical tests for triplet Be, triplet H2_2, and triplet H3+_3^+ states and comparison with no-pair Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian energies, numerical results are reported for electronically excited states of the helium dimer, He2_2, for which the present implementation delivers high-precision magnetic coupling curves necessary for a quantitative understanding of the fine structure of its high-resolution rovibronic spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2506.19131,
  title  = {Spin-dependent terms of the Breit-Pauli Hamiltonian evaluated with an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis set for molecular computations},
  author = {Péter Jeszenszki and Péter Hollósy and Ádám Margócsy and Edit Mátyus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.19131},
  year   = {2025}
}