The gravitational Hartree equation couples a wave function to its attractive Newtonian potential:
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The Hartree equations are self-consistent one-particle equations obtained by approximating a many-body wave function by a tensor product of orbital wave functions. Each orbital sees the potential averaged over the other particles' probability densities; attractive Newtonian mean-field variants include the Gravitational Hartree equation.