2017/04/24 by Mariusz Puchalski, Jacek Komasa, Krzysztof Pachucki
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Algorithm #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Computational physics #Cusp (singularity) #Geometry #Ground state #Hydrogen #Hydrogen molecule #Mathematics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Recoil #Relativistic quantum chemistry #State (computer science) #physics.atom-ph #physics.chem-ph #physics.comp-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.95.052506
published as Phys. Rev. A 95, 052506 (2017)
arxiv created 2017/04/24 · openalex created_date 2017/05/05 · openalex publication_date 2017/05/25 · arxiv updated 2017/05/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A calculation of the ground-state energy of the hydrogen molecule with significantly improved numerical accuracy reveals an unexpected discrepancy between the energies predicted by the theory and those measured in experiments. This finding suggests that the yet unknown relativistic recoil corrections might be larger than the magnitudes anticipated previously.