Improved Roothaan–Hartree–Fock wave functions for atoms and ions with N≤54

Improved Roothaan–Hartree–Fock wave functions are reported for the ground states of all the neutral atoms from He to Xe, singly charged cations from Li+ to Cs+, and stable singly charged anions from H− to I−. Our neutral atom wave functions are an improvement over those of Clementi and Roetti At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 14, 177 (1974), Bunge et al. Phys. Rev. A 46, 3691 (1992) and Koga et al. Phys. Rev. A 47, 4510 (1993). The ion wave functions are an improvement over those of Clementi and Roetti, and Koga et al. J. Phys. B 26, 2529 (1993). In all cases, the current wave functions predict energies within 1.3×10−5 hartrees of the numerical Hartree–Fock limit.