Hartree electrostatic energy

ID: hartree-electrostatic-energy

The classical electrostatic self-energy functional of an electron number density is the expression in the title. The factor one-half prevents counting each pair twice. Its functional derivative is the Hartree potential; integrating density times that potential gives . The functional includes an unphysical one-electron self-interaction unless other terms cancel it. It differs from the Hartree energy atomic unit.

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