Correlation potential and ladder diagrams

Details Correlation potential and ladder diagrams Correlation potential and ladder diagrams

2008-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1603v1

Phys. Rev. A, 78, 042502 (2008)

Physics

Atomic Physics

8 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.042502

The all-order correlation potential method of accurate atomic structure calculations for atoms with one external electron is extended to include one more class of correlation diagrams to all orders. These are the so-called ladder diagrams which describe residual Coulomb interaction between an external electron and atomic core. This is in addition to the screening of Coulomb interaction by core electrons and the hole-particle interaction in the core polarization operator which are also included in all orders. Calculations of the energies of the lowest $s$, $p$ and $d$ states of cesium and thallium show that inclusion of the ladder diagrams leads to significant improvement of the accuracy of the calculations. The discrepancy between theoretical and experimental energies is reduced to a small fraction of a per cent in all cases. This widens the range of atoms and atomic states for which the correlation potential method can produce very accurate results.

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