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The least-squares local energy method is applied to the lithium atom ground state. For a correlated wavefunction of 51 terms the calculated energy is —7.4653 hartrees compared with the exact nonrelativistic value of —7.4781 hartrees. Important limitations of the method are discussed and possibilities for avoiding them are proposed.
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Gimarc et al. (1963) studied this question.
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