Abstract
The excited states, being energy saddle points in the Hamiltonian eigenfunction Hilbert space, cannot be computed variationally by minimization of the energy. Thus, functionals are presented, that have local minimum at the bound excited states of a non‐degenerate Hamiltonian, allowing the computation at any desired accuracy, by using crude approximations of the lower lying states. They are useful for larger systems, because the higher roots of the standard secular equation have, by the Hylleraas‐Undheim and MacDonald theorem, several restrictions, which render them of lower quality relative to the lowest root, if the latter is good enough. Preliminary test‐results are presented for He 1S 1s2s.
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