Self-consistent calculation of the electronic structure ofN2and CO by the variational cellular method

Abstract
In this paper the variational cellular method is extended to the self-consistent calculation of diatomic molecules. This extension is based on a new variational expression for the total molecular energy the extremum of which defines the one-electron potential of the Schrödinger equation. The method was tested in the calculation of N2 and CO and the results are very good: the binding energy and the equilibrium interatomic distances were calculated to be within less than 10% of the known experimental results.