High-lying doubly excited states of He and H−: electron correlations and classification schemes

• Authors: Spyros Themelis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

High-lying doubly excited states of He and H− are studied and energies and intrinsic characteristics of their wave-functions are reported. Results for energies of 3Po and 1D doubly excited states associated with the hydrogenic thresholds up to N = 20 are presented and compared to available data from the literature. The classification of these doubly excited states by approximate quantum numbers is reexamined.

Keywords

EN

Doubly excited states; correlation; classification schemes; 31.15.Ar; 31.25.Jf

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 324-338

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2005

online

1 - 9 - 2005

Contributors

author

Spyros Themelis

• Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O. Box 1527, GR-711 10, Heraklion, Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/BF02475641