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Title: Regularizing the molecular potential in electronic structure calculations. I. SCF methods

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901021· OSTI ID:22415338
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  1. Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin (Germany)

We present a method to remove the singular nuclear potential in a molecule and replace it with a regularized potential that is more amenable to be represented numerically. The singular nuclear potential is canceled by the similarity-transformed kinetic energy operator giving rise to an effective nuclear potential that contains derivative operators acting on the wave function. The method is fully equivalent to the non-similarity-transformed version. We give numerical examples within the framework of multi-resolution analysis for medium-sized molecules.

OSTI ID:
22415338
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 18; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English