Momentum space properties of atoms

✍ Scribed by Anjali Harmalkar; Alfredo M. Simas; Vedene H. Smith Jr.; William M. Westgate

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 412 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7608
• DOI: 10.1002/qua.560230305

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A systematic investigation of momentum densities Π(p), Compton profiles J(q), and internally folded densities B(r) has been made for the ground states of the atoms from H to Kr. The data are presented in reduced form by means of the characteristic momentum p* = q* and length r* = 1/p*, where p* = [J(0)/2πΠ(0)]^½^. The results indicate that p* and J(0) contain the gross qualitative behavior of the atomic properties in momentum space. They also show that subtle effects over and above the gross scale and size are mostly periodic.