A Hyperspherical Description of N-Electron Atoms

Cavagnero, Michael

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A Hyperspherical Description of N-Electron Atoms

Michael Cavagnero⁴

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General features of the hyperspherical adiabatic representation of atomic structure and spectra are illustrated by means of a pair of simple thought experiments. The thought experiments describe how correlated atomic wavefunctions evolve under independent variations of the nuclear charge and of the number density of electrons. Consequences of the theory include systematic patterns of configuration mixing in both ground state channels and multiply-excited states.

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0111, USA
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University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
J. S. Briggs
University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
H. Kleinpoppen
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany
H. O. Lutz

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Cavagnero, M. (1988). A Hyperspherical Description of N-Electron Atoms. In: Briggs, J.S., Kleinpoppen, H., Lutz, H.O. (eds) Fundamental Processes of Atomic Dynamics. NATO ASI Series, vol 181. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5544-1_17

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