Two charged particles in a one-dimensional well

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 120-124

  Salter, Edward A ^a,b   Trucks, Gary W ^a   Cyphert, Daniel S ^c  

^a SPRING HILL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GAUSSIAN INC   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0035613554     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1286859     Document Type: Article

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23. (3) = 4.934 940(802) a.u., with exact values of last digits shown in parentheses. Full diagonalization of a 300×300 matrix by a general routine should take less than 10 min on a small computer.