Dirac-Fock eigenvalue

Fig. 3. A comparison of the eigenvalues of the outermost valence electrons for Pu using relativistic, semi-relativistic and non-relativistic kinematics and the local density approximation (LSD). Dirac-Fock eigenvalues after Desclaux are also shown. The total energies of the atoms (minus sign omitted), calculated with relativistic and non-relativistic kinematics are also shown. HF means Hartree Fock...

This study was started in order to find out whether one could find meaningful complex eigenvalues in the Hartree-Fock scheme for a transformed Hamiltonian in the method of complex scaling. This problem was intensely discussed at the 1981 Tarfala Workshop in the Kebnekaise area of the Swedish mountains. It was found that, if the many-electron Hamiltonian undergoes a similarity transformation U which is a product of one-electron transformations u - as in the method of complex scaling - then the Fock-Dirac operator p as well as the effective Hamiltonian Heff undergo one-electron similarity... 

The finite difference HF scheme can also be used to solve the Schrodinger equation of a one-electron diatomic system with an arbitrary potential. Thus the approach can be applied, for example, to the construction of exchange-correlation potentials employed by the density functional methods. The eigenvalues of several GaF39+ states have been reported and the Th 79+ system has been used to search for the influence of the finite charge distribution on the potential energy curve. It has been also indicated that the machinery of the finite difference HF method could be used to find exact solutions of the Dirac-Hartree-Fock equations based on a second-order Dirac equation. 

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