Free-particle Green's function matrix elements over spherical Gaussian and plane-wave-modulated Gaussian basis functions
Abstract
Free-particle Green's function plays a central role in the theoretical description of electron scattering and autoionization processes in quantum physics and chemistry. Recently, Gaussian basis set approaches have become increasingly important in applications to unbound and metastable electronic states. However, the practical use of such methods has been limited by the lack of efficient and compact analytical expressions for matrix elements of the free-particle Green's function in Gaussian-based representations. Here we present a novel, general analytical framework for the evaluation of one- and two-center matrix elements of the free-particle Green's function over spherical Gaussian basis functions and plane-wave-modulated spherical Gaussians. The derivation is based on the Fourier transform of Gaussian functions together with the addition theorem of harmonic polynomials, leading to compact closed-form expressions and efficient recurrence relations. We also analyze the asymptotic behavior of the free-particle Green's function matrix elements, which is essential in the description of low-energy continuum electrons using finite Gaussian basis sets.
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BibTeX
@misc{mahato2026freeparticle,
title = {{Free-particle Green's function matrix elements over spherical Gaussian and plane-wave-modulated Gaussian basis functions}},
author = {Dibyendu Mahato and Wojciech Skomorowski},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = may,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.18564},
eprint = {2605.18564},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18564},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Free-particle Green's function matrix elements over spherical Gaussian and plane-wave-modulated Gaussian basis functions
AU - Dibyendu Mahato
AU - Wojciech Skomorowski
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/05/18
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18564
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18564
AB - Free-particle Green's function plays a central role in the theoretical description of electron scattering and autoionization processes in quantum physics and chemistry. Recently, Gaussian basis set approaches have become increasingly important in applications to unbound and metastable electronic states. However, the practical use of such methods has been limited by the lack of efficient and compact analytical expressions for matrix elements of the free-particle Green's function in Gaussian-based representations. Here we present a novel, general analytical framework for the evaluation of one- and two-center matrix elements of the free-particle Green's function over spherical Gaussian basis functions and plane-wave-modulated spherical Gaussians. The derivation is based on the Fourier transform of Gaussian functions together with the addition theorem of harmonic polynomials, leading to compact closed-form expressions and efficient recurrence relations. We also analyze the asymptotic behavior of the free-particle Green's function matrix elements, which is essential in the description of low-energy continuum electrons using finite Gaussian basis sets.
ER -