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120 4 FOUNDATIONS OF MOLECULAR ORBITAL THEORY<br />

rarely sufficiently accurate for quantitative assessments. To improve our models, we need to<br />

take a more sophisticated accounting <strong>of</strong> many-electron effects.<br />

4.5.1 Hartree-product Wave Functions<br />

Let us examine the Schrödinger equation in the context <strong>of</strong> a one-electron Hamiltonian a little<br />

more carefully. When the only terms in the Hamiltonian are the one-electron kinetic energy<br />

and nuclear attraction terms, the operator is ‘separable’ and may be expressed as<br />

H =<br />

N<br />

hi<br />

i=1<br />

(4.32)<br />

where N is the total number <strong>of</strong> electrons and hi is the one-electron Hamiltonian defined by<br />

hi =− 1<br />

2 ∇2 i −<br />

M<br />

Zk<br />

rik<br />

k=1<br />

(4.33)<br />

where M is the total number <strong>of</strong> nuclei (note that Eq. (4.33) is written in atomic units).<br />

Eigenfunctions <strong>of</strong> the one-electron Hamiltonian defined by Eq. (4.33) must satisfy the<br />

corresponding one-electron Schrödinger equation<br />

hiψi = εiψi<br />

(4.34)<br />

Because the Hamiltonian operator defined by Eq. (4.32) is separable, its many-electron<br />

eigenfunctions can be constructed as products <strong>of</strong> one-electron eigenfunctions. That is<br />

HP = ψ1ψ2 ···ψN<br />

A wave function <strong>of</strong> the form <strong>of</strong> Eq. (4.35) is called a ‘Hartree-product’ wave function.<br />

The eigenvalue <strong>of</strong> is readily found from proving the validity <strong>of</strong> Eq. (4.35), viz.,<br />

HHP = Hψ1ψ2 ···ψN<br />

N<br />

=<br />

hiψ1ψ2 ···ψN<br />

i=1<br />

= (h1ψ1)ψ2 ···ψN + ψ1(h2ψ2) ···ψN + ...+ ψ1ψ2 ···(hNψN)<br />

= (ε1ψ1)ψ2 ···ψN + ψ1(ε2ψ2) ···ψN + ...+ ψ1ψ2 ···(εNψN)<br />

N<br />

=<br />

εiψ1ψ2 ···ψN<br />

i=1<br />

<br />

N<br />

=<br />

εi<br />

i=1<br />

<br />

HP<br />

(4.35)<br />

(4.36)

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