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Coulomb operator

The Coulomb operator, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, is a quantum mechanical operator used in the field of quantum chemistry. Specifically, it is a term found in the Fock operator. It is defined as:

widehat J_j (1) f(1)= f(1) int { left | varphi_j(2) right | }^2 frac{1}{r_{12}},dv_2

where

widehat J_j (1) is the one-electron Coulomb operator defining the repulsion resulting from electron j,

f(1) is a one-electron wavefunction being acted upon by the Coulomb operator,

varphi_j(2) is the one-electron wavefunction of the jth electron,

r_{12} is the distance between electrons 1 and 2.

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