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A potential harmonic method that is suitable for the three-body coulomb systems is presented. This method is applied to solve the three-body Schroedinger equations for He and e + e − e + directly, and the calculations yield very good results for the energy. For example, we obtain a ground-state energy of −0.26181 hartrees for e + e − e +, and −2.90300 hartrees for He with finite nuclear mass, in good agreement with the exact values of −0.26200 hartrees and −2.90330 hartrees. Compared with the full-set calculations, the errors in the total energy for ground and excited states of e + e − e + are very small, around −0.0001 hartrees. We conclude that the present method is one of the best PH methods for the three-body coulomb problem.
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Received: 5 September 1996 / Accepted: 14 July 1997
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Bian, W., Deng, C. A potential harmonic method for the three-body coulomb problem. Theor Chem Acc 98, 110–116 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002140050284
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