Leading relativistic corrections for atomic P states calculated with a finite-nuclear-mass approach and all-electron explicitly correlated Gaussian functions

Monika Stanke, Amir Bralin, Sergiy Bubin, and Ludwik Adamowicz
Phys. Rev. A 97, 012513 – Published 25 January 2018

Abstract

In this work we report progress in the development and implementation of quantum-mechanical methods for calculating bound ground and excited states of small atomic systems. The work concerns singlet states with the L=1 total orbital angular momentum (P states). The method is based on the finite-nuclear-mass (non-Born-Oppenheimer; non-BO) approach and the use of all-particle explicitly correlated Gaussian functions for expanding the nonrelativistic wave function of the system. The development presented here includes derivation and implementation of algorithms for calculating the leading relativistic corrections for singlet states. The corrections are determined in the framework of the perturbation theory as expectation values of the corresponding effective operators using the non-BO wave functions. The method is tested in the calculations of the ten lowest P1 states of the helium atom and the four lowest P1 states of the beryllium atom.

  • Received 20 June 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.012513

©2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

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Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Monika Stanke*

  • Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ulica Grudziądzka 5, Toruń PL 87-100, Poland

Amir Bralin and Sergiy Bubin

  • Department of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan

Ludwik Adamowicz§

  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA and Interdisciplinary Center for Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ulica Wileńska 4, Toruń PL 87-100, Poland

  • *monika@fizyka.umk.pl
  • amir.bralin@nu.edu.kz
  • sergiy.bubin@nu.edu.kz
  • §ludwik@email.arizona.edu

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Vol. 97, Iss. 1 — January 2018

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