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← ScienceWhich outcome occurs when representing electronic wave functions as gaussian-type orbitals in computational electronic structure methods, assuming incomplete basis sets?
A)Energy is variational upper bound.✓
B)Charge density becomes exact.
C)Electron correlation disappears.
D)Configuration interaction converges faster.
💡 Explanation
Using incomplete basis sets means the energy is an upper bound because the variational principle dictates that the calculated energy approaches the true energy from above; therefore, the energy provides an upper bound rather than an exact or lower one since the functions are not complete.
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