Singular Value Decomposition Solution of the Schrödinger Equation in the Presence of Exchange Terms

A new numerical method of solving integro-differential equations appearing in the theory of atomic and nuclear scattering systems has been devised. It is termed Singular Value Decomposition Method (SVD). It consists in expanding the exchange kernel into a number of separable terms by means of the Singular Value Decomposition and then iterating over the remainder. In this paper, we extend our SVD method to the scattering of low energy electron-helium which has been the subject of interest, both theoretically and experimentally. We compare our results with the Moments Method which is widely used. The Moments Method consists of making an expansion of the solution into an especially favorable basis that takes care of the non-exchange part of the Hamiltonian.