High-precision solution of the Dirac Equation for the hydrogen molecular ion by an iterative method
Abstract
The Dirac equation for H2+ is solved numerically using an iterative method proposed by Kutzelnigg [Z. Phys. 11, 15 (1989]. The four-component wavefunction is expanded in a newly introduced kinetically balanced exponential basis set. The ground-state relativistic energy is obtained with an accuracy of 10-20, which represents an improvement by several orders of magnitude, and is shown to be in good agreement with results obtained from perturbation theory.Highly accurate relativistic wavefunctions are obtained, which is a first step towards nonperturbative calculations of the one-loop self-energy correction in hydrogen molecular ions.
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