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No, the problems are very different. The properties of multi-electron atoms can actually be calculated reasonably accurately with numerical methods, but including relativistic and quantum electrodynamic corrections is much harder than in single-electron systems. On the other hand, the coupling constant of the strong interaction is too large to permit perturbative calculations of bound systems. This makes calculations of nuclear properties fundamentally much more difficult, regardless of the particle number.



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