Published July 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Coulomb-Sturmian matrix elements of the Coulomb Green's operator

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach, California 90840 (United States)

Description

The two-body Coulomb Hamiltonian, when calculated in Coulomb-Sturmian basis, has an infinite symmetric tridiagonal--i.e., Jacobi-matrix form. This Jacobi-matrix structure involves a continued-fraction representation for the inverse of the Green's matrix. The continued fraction can be transformed to a ratio of two 2F1 hypergeometric functions. From this result we find an exact analytic formula for the matrix elements of the Green's operator of the Coulomb Hamiltonian

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 014701-014701.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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