B-spline one-center method for molecular Hartree-Fock calculations

Abstract: We introduce one-center method in spherical coordinates to carry out Hartree-Fock calculations. Both the radial wave function and the angular wave function are expanded by B-splines, and the radial knots and angular knots are adjusted to deal with cusps properly, resulting in the significant improvement of convergence for several typical closed-shell diatomic molecules. B-splines could represent both the bound state and continuum state wave function properly, and the present approach has been applied to investigating ionization dynamics for H$_2$ in the intense laser field adopting single-active-electron model.