An expansion method for calculating atomic properties, V. Transition probabilities of M shell electrons

The expansion method is extended to M shell electrons and explicit calculations are carried out of the probabilities of all dipole transitions between configurations 1 8 2 2 8 2 2 p 6 3 l —1 8 2 2 8 2 2 p 6 3 l ´, and between configurations 1 8 2 2 8 2 2 p 6 3 l 1 3 l 2 —1 8 2 2 8 2 2 p 6 3 l 1 3 l 2 ´, account being taken of the mixing of degenerate configurations. Results are presented for all members of the sodium and magnesium isoelectronic sequences.

An earlier expression for the expectation value of a single-electron operator which isstationary with respect to first-order variations of the state wave function has been generalized to the case of an off-diagonal matrix element connecting two different states. Explicit calculations are carried out of the probabilities of dipole transitions between configurations 1 s a 2 s b 2 p c and 1 s a 2 s b–1 2 p c+1 for all members of the isoelectronic sequences from helium to neon and the importance of taking into account the mixing of degenerate configurations is demonstrated. The accuracy is at least comparable to that of the Hartree-Fock approximation and in cases where degeneracy is important it is much superior.


A theory is developed for expanding the dipole polarizabilities and shielding factors of an atom or ion in inverse powers of the nuclear charge Z in cases where the field links degenerate zero order configurations. Results for all members of the lithium isoelectronic sequence are presented both within the Hartree-Fock approximation and in a more accurate formulation, and are found to be in agreement with earlier work.


An expansion method is used to calculate the expectation values of various operators for the lowest 2 S and 2 P 0 states of all members of the lithium sequence. The method is extended to the calculation of matrix elements connecting the two states and the electric dipole transition integrals are calculated. A comparison with the results of more refined calculations shows that despite its simplicity the method is capable of high accuracy.


If the energy of an atomic system is expanded in inverse powers of the nuclear charge Z, the leading term of the correlation energy after degeneracies have been removed is a constant which can be expressed as a weighted sum of electron pair energies and certain non-additive terms. The pair energies may be obtained from direct two-electron variational calculations and the non-additive terms may be evaluated exactly. Calculations are carried out for the lithium 2 S sequence with the result that the non-relativistic eigenvalues are given by E(Z) = − 1.125Z 2 + 1.02280521Z−0.40814899 + O (Z -1 ).


The electric dipole matrix elements connecting the 1 s 2 1 S and 1 snp 1 P states of the helium isoelectronic sequence are calculated exactly to first order in inverse powers of the nuclear charge Z and the differences from the Hartree-Fock approximation are shown to correspond to virtual transitions of the 1 s electrons. Comparison of the oscillator strengths predicted by a screening approximation with more accurate values reveals a regular variation in the error contained in the screening approximation, the correction of which allows the prediction of oscillator strengths and probabilities of 1 s 2 1 S – 1 snp 1 P transitions for all values of n and all values of Z within a probable error of 2% (table 5). Values of the photoionization cross-sections at the spectral heads are also presented.


An expansion method is described which provides a simple and rapid means of calculating for any atom the expectation values of sums of one-electron operators. All the equations which arise can be solved analytically and the results are obtained as functions of the nuclear charge. For inner shells the accuracy is comparable with that of the Hartree—Fock approxi­mation. The method gives a quantitative description of the effects of direct and exchange interactions between electron shells. Results are given for all members of the helium and beryllium iso-electronic sequences.


An expansion method is used to calculate the expectation values of various operators for all states 1s 2 2s a 2p b SL of all members of the isoelectronic sequences from beryllium to neon. Explicit account is taken of the interaction between the configuration 1s 2 2s 2 2p b SL and 1s 2 2p b +2 SL and is found to be entirely negligible for these systems.


The accuracy of the methods of calculating the expectation values of perturbed atomic systems is analyzed by means of an expansion in inverse powers of the nuclear charge. Results are presented for the quadrupole polarizabilities and nuclear-shielding factors of all members of the helium and beryllium isoelectronic sequences and it is shown that the loss of accuracy entailed in replacing the full self-consistent method by a simpler one is small. Anestim ate is made of the importance of configuration interaction between the (1s 2 2s 2 ) 1 S and (1s 2 2p 2 ) 1 S states of the beryllium sequence.


1988 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
R.W.P. McWhirter

The intensity of a specrtal line from an optically thin plasma such as the outer atmosphere of the sun depends on both the atomic properties of the atomic ion responsible for the line and the physical nature of the plasma. In this paper we discuss the various ways in which the measured spectral intensities from the sun are used to discover something about the nature of the sun’s atmosphere. The technique has been referred to as the emission measure method. It has important limitations in terms of the accuracy of the specrtal data as well as the atomic data. We discuss some of these and suggest methods by which they may be assessed. The technique is illustrated by application to real observations from a number of authors.


Author(s):  
Ryuichi Shimizu ◽  
Ze-Jun Ding

Monte Carlo simulation has been becoming most powerful tool to describe the electron scattering in solids, leading to more comprehensive understanding of the complicated mechanism of generation of various types of signals for microbeam analysis.The present paper proposes a practical model for the Monte Carlo simulation of scattering processes of a penetrating electron and the generation of the slow secondaries in solids. The model is based on the combined use of Gryzinski’s inner-shell electron excitation function and the dielectric function for taking into account the valence electron contribution in inelastic scattering processes, while the cross-sections derived by partial wave expansion method are used for describing elastic scattering processes. An improvement of the use of this elastic scattering cross-section can be seen in the success to describe the anisotropy of angular distribution of elastically backscattered electrons from Au in low energy region, shown in Fig.l. Fig.l(a) shows the elastic cross-sections of 600 eV electron for single Au-atom, clearly indicating that the angular distribution is no more smooth as expected from Rutherford scattering formula, but has the socalled lobes appearing at the large scattering angle.


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