Tables of Atomic Functions

Why compute atomic Hartree-Fock functions, an approximation 30 years old, when most of contemporary physics pays relatively minor attention to atomic physics? The simple answer is that there are several unsettled problems and gaps in our knowledge of the electronic structure of the periodic system and that the Hartree-Fock method is presently the most efficient technique available. In the present literature on atomic functions there is no systematic effort comparable to the one presented in these tables, previously reported only briefly in the literature. Indeed, in the past, Hartree-Fock functions have been computed for relatively few cases, and often without sufficient accuracy.