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Our final perturbation technique is the variational technique, which is particularly well-suited for finding approximations to ground-state energies and wave functions. We shall apply it, in particular, to find approximations to the ground-state energy and wave functions for the He atom.
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Hecht, K.T. (2000). The Variational Method. In: Quantum Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1272-0_40
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