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Exchange kinetic energy, contragradience, and chemical binding

C. Woodrow Wilson Jr., William A. Goddard III

1970Chem. Phys. Lett., 5(1), 45-4944cited

Abstract

The energy components of the G1 wavefunction for H_2 are carefully analyzed. It is found that the binding is dominated by the exchange part of the kinetic energy and that this term is dominant because of the contragradience of the orbitals in the bond region.

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Jr., C. W. W. & III, W. A. G. (1970). Exchange kinetic energy, contragradience, and chemical binding. *Chem. Phys. Lett.*, *5*(1), 45-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(70)80126-9