Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
1999-02-27
Physics
Atomic Physics
Tentatively scheduled to appear in Physical Preview Letters Apr 5, 99. Revtex, 1 ps figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3224
The symmetric group $S_6$ that permutes the six five-fold axes of an icosahedron is introduced to go beyond the simple rotations that constitute the icosahedral group $I$. Owing to the correspondence $h\leftrightarrow d$, the calculation of the Coulomb energies for the icosahedral configurations $h^N$ based on the sequence $O(5) \supset S_6 \supset S_5 \supset I$ can be brought to bear on Racah's classic theory for the atomic d shell based on $SO(5) \supset SO_L(3) \supset I$. Among the elements of $S_6$ is the kaleidoscope operator ${\cal K}$ that rotates the weight space of SO(5) by $\pi/2$. Its use explains some puzzling degeneracies in d^3 involving the spectroscopic terms ^2P, ^2F, ^2G and ^2H.
Judd B. R.
Lo Edwin
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