1955/06/21 by R. K. Nesbet · 8 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Crystal Structures and Properties #Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
paper · doi:10.1098/rspa.1955.0134
openalex publication_date 1955/06/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/10
Abstract A systematic method is developed for estimating or calculating corrections for configuration interaction in atomic, molecular and nuclear wave-function calculations. Solutions of the Hartree-Fock equations for a single Slater determinant or approximate Hartree-Fock solutions obtained by Roothaan’s iterative procedure have special properties which are used to simplify the matrix of the many-particle Hamiltonian. A restricted self-consistent field method is proposed for treating states of low symmetry. This method avoids the off-diagonal Lagrange multipliers encountered in previous methods and is adapted to configuration interaction calculations.