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Nonrelativistic expansions of Dirac-Coulomb energy and first order relativistic Breit potential corrections for light Atomic and molecular systems

Wanping Zhou·Sanjiang Yang·Chen Tong
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The nonrelativistic expansion method is applied to the Dirac-Coulomb energy and first order relativistic Breit potential corrections for light atomic and molecular systems to derive high-order effective energy correction operators for few-body systems. It is found that effective operators at the $mα^8$ order contain incompletely separable divergences. These divergences must be canceled jointly with divergences arising from second- and third-order perturbations of lower-order energy correction operators, and such cancellation can be accomplished automatically by the nonrelativistic numerical expansion approach. Using Gaussian basis sets, we numerically compute contributions to the Dirac-Coulomb energy and relativistic Breit potential corrections up to order $mα^8$ for the ground states of the hydrogen atom, hydrogen molecular ion, helium atom, and hydrogen molecule. These results confirm the reliability of the present method and enable its extension to more complex systems.

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Wanping Zhou, Sanjiang Yang, Chen Tong. 2026-09-30. Nonrelativistic expansions of Dirac-Coulomb energy and first order relativistic Breit potential corrections for light Atomic and molecular systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40256

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