Rydberg States of the Helium Atom
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Using the recently introduced maximum overlap method and Hartree–Fock Perturbation Theory (HFPT), we compute Hartree–Fock (HF) wavefunctions for triplet 1s ns states of the helium atom. Comparison with near-exact results from Nakatsuji’s free ICI method reveals that HF theory provides a simple route to accurate energies of these Rydberg states, especially for large n. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem 109: 1915–1919, 2009
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