Helium asymptotic expansion

Also as in the case of helium, asymptotic expansion methods can be applied to the Rydberg states of lithium and compared with high precision measurements [73,74]. This case is more difficult because the Li+ core is a nonhydrogenic two-electron ion for which the multipole moments cannot be calculated analytically, and variational basis set methods must be used instead. However, the method is in principle capable of the same high accuracy as for helium. 

Since the accuracy of the asymptotic expansion rapidly gets even better with increasing L, there is clearly no need to perform numerical solutions to the Schrodinger equation for L > 7. The entire singly excited spectrum of helium is covered by a combination of high precision variational solutions for small n and L, quantum defect extrapolations for high n, and asymptotic expansions based on the core polarization model for high L. The complete asymptotic expansion for helium up to (r-10) is [36,29]... 

Table 5. Asymptotic expansion for the energy of the IslOk state of helium...

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