The Coulomb operator, named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, is a quantum mechanical operator used in the field of quantum chemistry. Specifically, it is a term found in the Fock operator. It is defined as:

where

1. is the one-electron Coulomb operator defining the repulsion resulting from electron j,

   is the one-electron wavefunction electron being acted upon by the Coulomb operator,

   electron,

   .

See also

• Core Hamiltonian

• Exchange operator

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