Boundary solutions of the two-electron Schroedinger equation at two-particle coalescences of the atomic systems
- Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel)
The limit relations for the partial derivatives of the two-electron atomic wave functions at the two-particle coalescence lines have been obtained numerically using accurate correlation function hyperspherical harmonic method wave functions. The asymptotic solutions of the proper two-electron Schroedinger equation have been derived for both electron-nucleus and electron-electron coalescence. It is shown that the solutions for the electron-nucleus coalescence correspond to the ground and singly excited bound states, including triplet ones. The proper solutions at small distances R from the triple coalescence point were presented as the second order expansion on R and ln R. The vanishing of the Fock's logarithmic terms at the electron-nucleus coalescence line was revealed in the frame of this expansion, unlike the case of electron-electron coalescence. On the basis of the obtained boundary solutions the approximate wave function corresponding to both coalescence lines have been proposed in the two-exponential form with no variational parameters.
- OSTI ID:
- 20786704
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 73, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.012514; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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