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Electronic Wave Functions. I. A General Method of Calculation for the Stationary States of Any Molecular System

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In this paper, it was shown that the only obstacle to the evaluation of wave functions of any required degree of accuracy is the labour of computation, and that all necessary integrals can be explicitly evaluated.
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This communication deals with the general theory of obtaining numerical electronic wave functions for the stationary states of atoms and molecules. It is shown that by taking Gaussian functions, and functions derived from these by differentiation with respect to the parameters, complete systems of functions can be constructed appropriate to any molecular problem, and that all the necessary integrals can be explicitly evaluated. These can be used in connexion with the molecular orbital method, or localized bond method, or the general method of treating linear combinations of many Slater determinants by the variational procedure. This general method of obtaining a sequence of solutions converging to the accurate solution is examined. It is shown that the only obstacle to the evaluation of wave functions of any required degree of accuracy is the labour of computation. A modification of the general method applicable to atoms is discussed and considered to be extremely practicable.

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Self-Consistent Field, Including Exchange and Superposition of Configurations, with Some Results for Oxygen

TL;DR: In this article, the one-electron radial wave functions were calculated by the method of the selfconsistent field without exchange, but exchange terms were included in the calculation of the energy from these radial wave function.
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Tables for Determining Atomic Wave Functions and Energies

TL;DR: In this paper, a table has been constructed so that wave functions and energies, for any atomic state having $1s, $2s$ and $2p$ electrons, can be computed by variational means.
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