In order to be useful for ionic crystals cluster calculations must be modified so as to simulate the crystal potential in a reasonable way. Two aspects of such calculations-the normalization of the orbitals and the construction of the coulomb potential-are analyzed in some detail. Illustrative calculations are camed out for MgO and the results are compared with experimental data and with other theoretical results.
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