Highly accurate wavefunctions for two-electron systems using two parameteres

TL;DR

This paper introduces a highly accurate two-electron wavefunction model using only two parameters, optimized via a variational approach, achieving results comparable to more complex 204-parameter models.

Contribution

The paper presents a simple, two-parameter wavefunction form for two-electron systems that attains high accuracy through variational optimization, simplifying previous complex models.

Findings

Wavefunction matches results of 204-parameter models within ppm

Optimization of parameters yields highly accurate ground-state properties

Method simplifies calculations for two-electron systems

Abstract

It is shown for two electron atoms that ground-state wavefunctions of the form \begin{equation} \Psi(\vec{r_{1}}, \vec{r_{2}})=\phi(\vec{r_{1}})\phi(\vec{r_{2}})(\cosh ar_{1}+\cosh ar_{2})(1+0.5 r_{12}e^{-b r_{12}}) \end{equation} where $\vec{r_{1}}$ and $\vec{r_{2}}$ are the coordinates of two electrons and $r_{12}=|\vec{r_{1}}-\vec{r_{2}}|$, can be made highly accurate by optimizing $a$, $b$ and $\phi$. This is done by solving a variationally derived equation for $\phi$ for a given $a$ and $b$ and finding $a$ and $b$ so that the expectation value of the Hamiltonian is minimum. For the set $\{a, b, \phi\}$ the values for various quantities obtained from the above wavefunction are compared with those given by $204$-parameter wavefunction of Koga et al.[11] and are found to be matching quite accurately(within ppm) with them.