Convergence of an s-wave calculation of the He ground state

Details Convergence of an s-wave calculation of the He ground state Convergence of an s-wave calculation of the He ground state

2006-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607232v1

Int.J.Quantum Chemistry 107 (2007) 907

Physics

Atomic Physics

12 pages, 10 figures, revtex format, submitted to Int.J.Quantum Chemistry

Scientific paper

10.1002/qua.21217

The Configuration Interaction (CI) method using a large Laguerre basis restricted to l = 0 orbitals is applied to the calculation of the He ground state. The maximum number of orbitals included was 60. The numerical evidence suggests that the energy converges as Delta E^N approx A/N^(7/2) + B/N^(8/2) + >... where N is the number of Laguerre basis functions. The electron-electron delta-function expectation converges as Delta delta^N approx A/N^(5/2) + B/N^(6/2) + ... and the variational limit for the l = 0 basis is estimated as 0.1557637174(2) a_0^3. It was seen that extrapolation of the energy to the variational limit is dependent upon the basis dimension at which the exponent in the Laguerre basis was optimized. In effect, it may be best to choose a non-optimal exponent if one wishes to extrapolate to the variational limit. An investigation of the Natural Orbital asymptotics revealed the energy converged as Delta E^N approx A/N^6 + B/N^7 + ... while the electron-electron delta-function expectation converged as Delta delta^N approx A/N^4 + B/N^5 + >... . The asymptotics of expectation values other than the energy showed fluctuations that depended on whether $N$ was even or odd.

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