A new method for solving the two-center problem with realistic potentials

A method has been proposed for the solution of the two-center problem with realistic potentials. It consists of two steps; first a separable approximation is made to the single-particle potentials, and then the two-center problem with these separable potentials is solved exactly. The only approximations are introduced at the first stage, and a well controllable way. As an example the authors have calculated the single-particle energies and wave functions in the field of two 16O-like Woods-Saxon potentials as functions of their distance R. (Auth.)