In this letter the conceptual and computational implications of the Hartree product type nuclear wavefunction introduced recently within context of the ab initio non-Born-Oppenheimer Nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) methodology are... more
In this letter the conceptual and computational implications of the Hartree product type nuclear wavefunction introduced recently within context of the ab initio non-Born-Oppenheimer Nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) methodology are considered. It is demonstrated that this wavefunction may imply a pseudo-adiabatic separation of the nuclei and electrons and each nucleus is conceived as a quantum oscillator while a non-Coulombic effective Hamiltonian is deduced for electrons. Using variational principle this Hamiltonian is used to derive a modified set of single-component Hartree-Fock equations which are equivalent to the multi-component version derived previously within context of the NEO and, easy to be implemented computationally.
