Atomic Structure Theory

Atomic Structure Theory is a textbook for students with a background in quantum mechanics. The text is designed to give hands-on experience with atomic structure calculations. Material covered includes angular momentum methods, the central field Schrödinger and Dirac equations, Hartree-Fock and Dirac-Hartree-Fock equations, multiplet structure, hyperfine structure, the isotope shift, dipole and multipole transitions, basic many-body perturbation theory, configuration interaction, and correlation corrections to matrix elements. Numerical methods for solving the Schrödinger and Dirac eigenvalue problems and the (Dirac)-Hartree-Fock equations are given as well. B-spline basis sets are used to carry out sums arising in higher-order many-body calculations. Illustrative problems are provided, together with solutions. FORTRAN programs implementing the numerical methods in the text are included.

• Atomic structure
• Dirac equation
• Hartree-Fock theory
• Many-body theory
• Numerical methods
• Relativity and the Breit interaction
• quantum mechanics
• self-consistent field

• Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

  Walter R. Johnson

Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 1992-present

Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 1958-present

Chairman: Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 1982-1985

Chairperson: Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, 1988-1989.

Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award, University of Frankfurt, 1982-1983;

Technical University of Dresden1994; Technical University of Dresden 2001.

Gordon Godfrey Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, 2005

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