Ground states of helium in exponential-cosine-screened Coulomb potentials

Abstract

Ground-state energies and wavefunctions for helium atom (He) in exponential-cosine-screened Coulomb potentials (ECSCP) with screening parameter λ, have been obtained for various values of λ within the framework of Ritz's variational principle. Highly correlated and extensive wavefunctions have been used to obtain energy eigenvalues. The ground-state energies of He for various values of λ have been shown to converge with the increase of the terms in the wavefunction. The ground-state energies of He+ along with the ionization potentials of He have also been reported. Our present work represents a first calculation, for the first time in the literature, of the ground-state energies of He interacting with ECSCP.