Pair potential with submillikelvin uncertainties and nonadiabatic treatment of the halo state of helium dimer

Abstract

The pair potential for helium has been computed with accuracy improved by an order of magnitude relative to the best previous determination. For the well region, its uncertainties are now below 1 millikelvin. The main improvement is due to the use of explicitly correlated wave functions at the nonrelativistic Born-Oppenheimer (BO) level of theory. The diagonal BO and the relativistic corrections were obtained from large full configuration interaction calculations. The nonadiabatic perturbation theory was used to predict the properties of the halo state of helium dimer. Its binding energy and the average value of interatomic distance are found to be 138.9(5) neV and 47.13(8) Å. The binding energy agrees with its first experimental determination of 151.9(13.3) neV [Zeller et al., PNAS 113, 14651 (2016)].

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• Nonadiabatic corrections to the wave function and energy
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