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from the ground state, the spins of the various single-particle states
should always sum up to zero.

\paragraph{Part a), setting up the basis.}
\paragraph{Part a), setting up the basis (10 pts)}
We start with the helium atom and define our single-particle Hilbert
space to consist of the single-particle orbits $1s$, $2s$ and $3s$,
with their corresponding spin degeneracies.
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states $|\Phi_{ij}^{ab}\rangle$ in a second quantization
representation.

\paragraph{Part b) Second quantized Hamiltonian.}
\paragraph{Part b) Second quantized Hamiltonian (10 pts)}
Define the Hamiltonian in a second-quantized form and use this to
compute the expectation value of the ground state (defining the
so-called reference energy and later our Hartree-Fock functional) of
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matrix elements listed at the end of the midterm to find the value of
$E$ as function of $Z$ and compute $E$ as function of $Z$.

\paragraph{Part c) Limiting ourselves to one-particle-one excitations.}
\paragraph{Part c) Limiting ourselves to one-particle-one excitations (10 pts)}
Hereafter we will limit ourselves to a system which now contains only
one-particle-one-hole excitations beyond the chosen state $|c\rangle$.
Using the possible Slater determinants from exercise a) for the helium
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The exact energy with our Hamiltonian is $-2.9037$ atomic units for
helium. This value is also close to the experimental energy.

\paragraph{Part d) Moving to the Beryllium atom.}
\paragraph{Part d) Moving to the Beryllium atom (10 pts)}
We repeat parts b) and c) but now for the beryllium atom.

Define the ansatz for $|c\rangle$ and limit yourself again to
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\end{equation*}
brings us into the new basis $\psi$. The new basis is orthonormal and $C$ is a unitary matrix.

\paragraph{Part e) Hartree-Fock.}
\paragraph{Part e) Hartree-Fock (10 pts)}
Minimizing with respect to $C^*_{p\alpha}$, remembering that
$C^*_{p\alpha}$ and $C_{p\alpha}$ (and that the indices contain all
single-particle quantum numbers including spin) are independent and
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in the original basis (in our case the hydrogen-like wave functions)
while roman letters refer to the new basis.

\paragraph{Part f) The Hartree-Fock matrices.}
\paragraph{Part f) The Hartree-Fock matrices (20 pts)}
The Hartree-Fock equations with a variation of the coefficients
$C_{p\alpha}$ lead to an eigenvalue problem whose eigenvectors are the
coefficients $C_{p\alpha}$ and eigenvalues are the new single-particle
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coefficients $C_{p\beta}$ etc. is $C_{p\beta}=1$ for $p=\beta$ and
zero else.

\paragraph{Part g) Writing a Hartree-Fock code.}
\paragraph{Part g) Writing a Hartree-Fock code (30 pts)}
The final stage is to set up an iterative scheme where you use the new
wave functions determined via the coefficients $C_{p\alpha}$ to solve
iteratively the Hartree-Fock equations till a given self-consistency
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