SPURIOUS SOLUTIONS ARISING IN MATRIX APPROXIMATIONS TO THE DIRAC-COULOMB PROBLEM

Authors
TALMAN JD
Citation
Jd. Talman, SPURIOUS SOLUTIONS ARISING IN MATRIX APPROXIMATIONS TO THE DIRAC-COULOMB PROBLEM, Physical review. A, 50(4), 1994, pp. 3525-3526
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
10502947
Volume
50
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
3525 - 3526
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1994)50:4<3525:SSAIMA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
If the Dirac-Coulomb problem is solved by expanding the large and smal l components of the wave function in certain finite bases, spurious so lutions are found for the lowest states with j = l - 1/2 . This paper shows that these must arise in any so-called kinetically balanced basi s.