Eur. Phys. J. D (2016) 70: 117
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2016-70178-5

Regular Article

Local orbitals in electron scattering calculations^*

A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

^a e-mail: carl@schwinger.caltech.edu

Received: 8 March 2016
Received in final form: 13 April 2016
Published online: 24 May 2016

Abstract

We examine the use of local orbitals to improve the scaling of calculations that incorporate target polarization in a description of low-energy electron-molecule scattering. After discussing the improved scaling that results, we consider the results of a test calculation that treats scattering from a two-molecule system using both local and delocalized orbitals. Initial results are promising.