Potential energy shift for a screened Coulomb potential

Utilizing Hartree-Fock self-consistent field wave functions, accurate values of the potential energy shift at the nucleus due to atomic electrons have been determined for a large number of atoms. An extensive numerical table of values of the shift,V ₀, is given and comparison is made with earlier approximate results obtained from the Thomas-Fermi and Thomas-Fermi-Dirac statistical models and with estimates fromK binding energy data. In the calculation of screening corrections to Fermi functions, the Hartree-Fock results present a considerable improvement over earlier estimates from the aforementioned methods.