DIRAC-FOCK SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD METHOD FOR CLOSED-SHELL MOLECULES WITH KINETIC BALANCE AND FINITE NUCLEAR SIZE

We present a general method of implementing the kinetic balance condition within the Dirac-Fock (DF) self-consistent field (SCF) formalism for closed-shell moleculars structure. We review the steps leading to the derivation of DF SCF equations for closed-shell molecules, particularly as formulated by Matsuoka et al. In the present approach, the large component of the molecular spinors are expanded in terms of atomic basis spinors of spherical-type Gaussian functions, with the small component related to the large component by the kinetic balance condition. It is shown that imposing the kinetic balance condition on geometric Gaussian-type basis functions allows us to obtain the Fock matrix elements, involving both the large and the small components, from the standard nonrelativistic Cartesian-type matrix elements. By using properties of orthogonal polynomials, the solid spherical harmonics are expressed in Cartesian form, thus providing a general basis for transformation of one- and two-electron-matrix elements, obtained from a Cartesian Gaussian-type basis, to a spherical Gaussian-type basis. The advantages of using kinetically balanced geometric Gaussian-type basis functions in molecular DF calculations including finite-size nucleus effects are emphasized. For the sake of completeness, we have added in an appendix corrections to the nuclear attraction matrix elements for the finite-size nucleus already derived by Matsuoka.