ISSN:
0020-7608
Keywords:
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling
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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Wave functions which are a linear combination of H2+-type elliptical orbitals are optimized to provide either an upper bound or a lower bound to the H2+ ground state. For the latter, Temple's formula is used. Three criteria are considered to determine the relative accuracy of these wave functions: (i) energy (calculated versus exact eigenvalue); (ii) average error; and (iii) local energy. Although the lower-bound optimized wave functions obtained are the most accurate available for H2+ from approximate wave functions, they are still inferior to the corresponding upper-bound wave functions by criteria (i) and (ii). In particular, using criterion (ii), it is shown numerically that the upper-bound functions are “correct to second order,” while the lower-bound functions are almost, but not quite, “correct to second order.” Despite this, the local energy analysis, criterion (iii), reveals that the lower-bound wave functions can be more accurate than the upper-bound functions in some regions of space, and hence give more accurate values for physical properties sensitive to these regions. Examples considered are the dipole-dipole and Fermi contact interactions.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qua.560080611
