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Within the Hartree atomic unit systems, the Schrödinger equation becomes parameter free. But there’s more to it than making a student’s life easier, as Gordon Drake and Eite Tiesinga recount.

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  1. University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

    Gordon W. F. Drake

  2. Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

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Drake, G.W.F., Tiesinga, E. Simplify your life. Nat. Phys. 16, 1242 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01095-x

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