Atomic Many-Body Theory

✍ Scribed by Professor Ingvar Lindgren, Dr. John Morrison (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 477
• Series: Springer Series on Atoms+Plasmas 3
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the new edition only minor modifications have been made. Some print­ ing errors have been corrected and a few clarifications have been made. In recent years the activity in relativistic many-body theory has increased con­ siderably, but this field falls outside the scope of this book. A brief summary of the recent developments, however, has been included in the section on "relativistic effects" in Chap. 14. In addition, only a very limited number of references have been added, without any systematic updating of the material. Goteborg, December 1985 l. Lindgren· J. Morrison Preface to the First Edition This book has developed through a series of lectures on atomic theory given these last eight years at Chalmers University of Technology and several oth­ er research centers. These courses were intended to make the basic elements of atomic theory available to experimentalists working with the hyperfine structure and the optical properties of atoms and to provide some insight into recent developments in the theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-5
Angular-Momentum and Spherical Tensor Operators....Pages 6-46
Angular-Momentum Graphs....Pages 47-79
Further Developments of Angular-Momentum Graphs. Applications to Physical Problems....Pages 80-102
The Independent-Particle Model....Pages 103-115
The Central-Field Model....Pages 116-133
The Hartree-Fock Model....Pages 134-162
Many-Electron Wave Functions....Pages 163-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Perturbation Theory....Pages 184-211
First-Order Perturbation for Closed-Shell Atoms....Pages 212-223
Second Quantization and the Particle-Hole Formalism....Pages 224-250
Application of Perturbation Theory to Closed-Shell Systems....Pages 251-284
Application of Perturbation Theory to Open-Shell Systems....Pages 285-334
The Hyperfine Interaction....Pages 335-380
The Pair-Correlation Problem and the Coupled-Cluster Approach....Pages 381-423
Back Matter....Pages 424-466

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics;Quantum Physics