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Hartree-Fock Method

The Hartree-Fock (HF) method is a foundational self-consistent field approach for solving the many-electron Schrödinger equation. Developed independently by Douglas Hartree and Vladimir Fock in the late 1920s, it approximates the ground state by assuming electrons move in an average field generated by all other electrons, enabling tractable quantum chemistry calculations.

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Hartree-Fock Method (HF)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / quantum-computing
  • Fock, V. (1930). Näherungsmethode zur Lösung des quantenmechanischen Mehrkörperproblems. Zeitschrift für Physik, 61, 126–148. · URL
  • Hartree, D. R. (1928). The wave mechanics of an atom with a non-coulomb central field. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 24, 89–110. · DOI 10.1017/S0305004100011919
  • Szabo, A., Ostlund, N. S. (2012). Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory. Dover Publications. · URL
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