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Natural Expansion of Exact Wavefunctions. II. The Hydrogen‐Molecule Ground State

Ernest R. Davidson, +1 more
- 03 Jul 1962 - 
- Vol. 37, Iss: 12, pp 2966-2971
TLDR
The Kolos and Roothaan wave function for H2 has been analyzed into natural orbitals and it was found that the first natural orbital is nearly the SCF function as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract
The Kolos and Roothaan wavefunction for H2 has been analyzed into natural orbitals. It was found that the first natural orbital is nearly the SCF function. The first four natural orbitals provide a good description of the molecule and give a total energy of —1.169884 hartrees. Beyond the first four terms, the natural expansion becomes more slowly convergent.

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Natural Orbitals in the Quantum Theory of Two-Electron Systems

TL;DR: In this article, the wave functions for the singlet and triplet states of a two-electron system in a given nuclear framework are investigated as superpositions of configurations and are shown to be transformationally equivalent to quadratic forms having certain ranks and signatures.
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Many-electron theory of atoms and molecules. i. shells, electron pairs vs many-electron correlations

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory is developed to see what the physically important features of correlation in atoms and molecules are, based on this to obtain a quantitative scheme for N −electron systems as in He and H2.
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The dissociation energies of the H2, HD, and D2 molecules

TL;DR: The far ultraviolet absorption edges of H2, HD, and D2 have been studied under high resolution and the different limits corresponding to absorption from different lower state rotational levels have been observed as mentioned in this paper.
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