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J Planelles1, J I Climente, M Royo
1Departament de Química-Física i Analítica, UJI, Box 224, E-12080 Castelló, Spain.
Abstract:
Full configuration interaction calculations for two electrons in narrow semiconductor nanorods are carried out employing different orbital basis sets. It is shown that the usual configurations built from single-particle states cannot yield a correct singlet-triplet energetic order regardless of the basis size, as they miss the correlation energy. Mean-field optimized orbitals partially correct this drawback. A new approach is introduced, based on a simple variational procedure, which yields robust results.
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