Quantum defect and transition probabilities

✍ Scribed by Inmaculada Martin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7608
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-461x(1999)74:5<479::aid-qua5>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

A summary of the relativistic quantum defect orbital RQDO method, as well as a few numerical examples of oscillator strengths, are presented. The radial functions in this formalism derive from solving a form of the decoupled second-order Dirac radial equation. With the method being totally analytical, it constitutes a simple and reliable procedure for predicting properties of interest in astrophysics and fusion plasma research, such as transition probabilities, while accounting for a large part of relativistic effects. Core polarization during electron transitions can also be explicitly accounted for in an analytic form.