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Electronic structure calculations are mostly carried out with Coulomb potential singularity adapted basis sets like STO or contracted GTO. With other basis or for heavy elements the pseudopotentials may appear as a practical alternative.…
Similar to other electron correlation methods, many-body perturbation theory methods based on Green functions, such as the so-called $GW$ approximation, suffer from the usual slow convergence of energetic properties with respect to the size…
A recently developed density functional method, within Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham framework, is used for faithful description of atoms, molecules in Cartesian coordinate grid, by using an LCAO-MO ansatz. Classical Coulomb potential is obtained by…
The $1/Z$-expansion for the Coulomb system of infinitely massive center of charge Z and two electrons is discussed. Numerical deficiency in Baker et al, {\em Phys. Rev. \bf A41}, 1247 (1990) is indicated which continue to raise doubts in…
We report calculation of the energy spectrum and the spectroscopic properties of the superheavy element ion: Rf^+. We use the 4-component relativistic Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian and the multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) model…
A simple yet general method for constructing basis sets for molecular electronic structure calculations is presented. These basis sets consist of atomic natural orbitals from a multi-configurational self-consistent field calculation…
Theory for a gridded inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion system is presented that shows a net energy gain is possible if the grid is magnetically shielded from ion impact. A simplified grid geometry is studied, consisting of two…
Results of our recent highly accurate computations of the Coulomb two-center systems with the unit electrical charges $X^{+} X^{+} e^{-}$ and $X^{+} Y^{+} e^{-}$ are discussed. In particular, we have determined (to very high accuracy) the…
An accurate study of the lowest $1\sigma_g$ and the low-lying excited $1\sigma_u$, $1\pi_{u,g}$, $1\delta_{g,u}$ electronic states of the exotic molecular ion $H_3^{2+}$ in linear configuration parallel to a magnetic field is carried out.…
The electronic spectra of light one-electron quasi-molecular compounds H-H$^+$, He$^+$-He$^2+$ and He$^+$-H$^+$ are analyzed. To this end, the two-center Dirac equation is solved by the dual-kinetically balanced finite-basis-set method for…
This chapter concerns with the recent development of a new DFT methodology for accurate, reliable prediction of many-electron systems. Background, need for such a scheme, major difficulties encountered, as well as their potential remedies…
We present first-principles investigation of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of uranium monochalcogenides: US, USe, UTe. The calculations were performed by using recently developed LDA+U+SO method in which both Coulomb and…
We applied the finite-size scaling method using the B-splines basis set to construct the stability diagram for two-electron atoms with a screened Coulomb potential. The results of this method for two electron atoms are very accurate in…
A high-precision numerical calculation is reported for the self-energy correction to the hyperfine splitting and to the bound-electron g factor in hydrogenlike ions with low nuclear charge numbers. The binding nuclear Coulomb field is…
In this paper, the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of the GdSn$_3$, CmSn$_3$ and Gd$_x$Cm$_{1-x}$Sn$_3$ compounds ($x = 0.25$, $0.5$ and $0.75$) were studied using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method,…
Electronic structure calculation of atoms and molecules, in the past few decades has largely been dominated by density functional methods. This is primarily due to the fact that this can account for electron correlation effects in a…
In this paper, we develop a one-dimensional (1-D), quasineutral, hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium model with kinetic ions and massless fluid electrons and derive associated solutions. The model allows for an electrostatic potential that is…
An integral equation method is presented for the 1D steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations modeling ion transport through membrane channels. The differential equations are recast as integral equations using Green's 3rd identity…
A simple method of variational calculations of the electronic structure of a two-electron atom/ion, primarily near the nucleus, is proposed. The method as a whole consists of a standard solution of a generalized matrix eigenvalue equation,…
We report benchmark results for one-dimensional (1D) atomic and molecular systems interacting via the Coulomb operator $|x|^{-1}$. Using various wavefunction-type approaches, such as Hartree-Fock theory, second- and third-order…