Projected Hartree Product Wavefunctions. III. Comparison with the CI Method for H2

Abstract
Calculations of the energy of H2 have been performed using both the projected Hartree–Fock (PHF) method and a full CI method in the same basis for comparison of the two methods. It is discovered that PHF can account for 86% of the correlation energy, whereas CI will account for 88% of the correlation energy.