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The simplest many-electron atom is the helium atom. In the ground state, its two s electrons exactly fill the innermost shell with the principal quantum number n = 1. There is no room for more electrons in this shell, as we shall see below.
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Haken, H., Wolf, H.C. (1994). Many-Electron Atoms. In: The Physics of Atoms and Quanta. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97567-7_17
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