Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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The Generator Coordinate Method |
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3 | (6) |
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3 | (1) |
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Background for the Formulation of the Method |
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3 | (1) |
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Formulation of the Method |
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4 | (1) |
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Applications in Nuclear Physics |
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5 | (1) |
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Some Alternative Proposals to the Generator Coordinate Method |
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6 | (3) |
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Analytical and Numerical Experiments for Simple Systems |
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9 | (10) |
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9 | (1) |
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Analytical Solutions for the Griffin--Hill--Wheeler Equation |
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9 | (5) |
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Numerical Experiments for the Griffin--Hill--Wheeler Equation |
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14 | (5) |
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The Generator Coordinate Hartree--Fock Formalism |
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19 | (12) |
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19 | (1) |
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The Background of the Hartree--Fock Scheme |
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19 | (2) |
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The Generator Coordinate Hartree--Fock Method |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (3) |
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First Applications to the He and Be Atoms |
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25 | (6) |
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The He Atom with a Slater Orbital |
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25 | (1) |
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The He Atom with a Gaussian Orbital |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (5) |
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Discretization Techniques |
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31 | (24) |
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31 | (1) |
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A Model Problem: The Harmonic Oscillator |
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32 | (2) |
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Discretization of the Griffin--Hill--Wheeler Equation for the Harmonic Oscillator Problem |
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34 | (4) |
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The Integral Discretization |
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38 | (8) |
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38 | (4) |
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The Harmonic Oscillator with Translated Gaussians |
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42 | (2) |
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The Hydrogen Atom with a Gaussian Generator Function |
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44 | (2) |
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A New Proposal for the Discretization of the Griffin--Hill--Wheeler--Hartree--Fock Equations |
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46 | (9) |
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46 | (3) |
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The Polynomial Integral Discretization |
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49 | (6) |
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Role of the Weight Function in the Design of Efficient Basis Sets for Atomic and Molecular Nonrelativistic Calculations |
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55 | (24) |
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55 | (1) |
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Weight Function and the Generation of Universal Basis Sets |
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56 | (19) |
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Slater and Gaussian Universal Basis Sets for the Ground and Certain Low-lying Excited States of the Neutral Atoms from Hydrogen to Xenon |
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56 | (5) |
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61 | (4) |
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Slater and Gaussian Universal Basis Sets for the Ground and Certain Low-lying Excited States of Positive and Negative Ions of the Atoms from Hydrogen to Xenon |
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65 | (7) |
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Role of the Weight Functions in the Evaluation of Total Electronic Energies |
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72 | (3) |
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Is the Generator Coordinate Weight Function a Distribution? |
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75 | (1) |
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The Future of Generating Basis Sets for Atomic and Molecular Calculations Using the GCHF Method |
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76 | (3) |
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The Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock Method and Relativistic Calculations for Atoms and Molecules |
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79 | (72) |
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79 | (1) |
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The Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock--Coulomb Formalism |
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80 | (7) |
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The Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock Method and the Generation of a Universal Gaussian Basis Set for the Relativistic Closed-Shell Atoms from Zinc to Nobelium |
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87 | (6) |
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The Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock Method and the Generation of a Relativistic Universal Gaussian Basis Set for Atoms from Hydrogen to Nobelium |
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93 | (15) |
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Variational Prolapse Analysis for the Relativistic Universal Gaussian Basis Set Generated with the Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock Method |
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100 | (8) |
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The Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock--Breit Formalism |
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108 | (5) |
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A Polynomial Version of the Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock Method |
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113 | (6) |
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The Polynomial Version of the Generator Coordinate Dirac--Fock Method and the Generation of Relativistic Adapted Gaussian Basis Sets |
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119 | (32) |
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Relativistic Adapted Gaussian Basis Sets for Hydrogen through Xenon |
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119 | (16) |
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Relativistic Adapted Gaussian Basis Sets for Cesium through Radon |
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135 | (16) |
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The Generator Coordinate Method and Connections with Natural Orbitals and Density Functional Theory |
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151 | (12) |
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151 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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An Integral Transform View of Natural Orbitals |
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151 | (5) |
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Density Functional Theory |
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156 | (1) |
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First Applications of the Generator Coordinate Method to Density Functional Theory |
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157 | (6) |
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FINAL REMARKS AND PERSPECTIVES |
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163 | (2) |
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APPENDIX: SELECTED UNIVERSAL AND ATOM-ADAPTED SLATER AND GAUSSIAN BASIS SETS FOR ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR CALCULATIONS |
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165 | (134) |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (4) |
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175 | (4) |
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179 | (120) |
Subject Index |
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