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Re:Circular Harmonics by aaaaaaaaaaab on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:19PM (#29044171)
Yes.
Re:Circular Harmonics by gus_massa on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:38PM (#29044318)
More details: The orbitals are the product of an Harmonic Orbital and a radial function. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#Types_of_orbita... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-like_atom#Non-relativ...

Note that this is the initial selection of orbitals. The "real"[1] orbitals are linear combinations of them. In some cases it's good enough to mix them using some easy combinations like in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_hybridisation but in the general cases you must use a computer to calculate the best combination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree%E2%80%93Fock_method .

[1] It get's more complicated.