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Systematic studies of highly excited Rydberg states in ions with two valance electrons

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Summary, in English

A method, based on the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock approach, for ab initio calculations of Rydberg states has been developed. The method has been tested for a number of highly excited Rydberg states, with quantum numbers l = 4 - 8 and n <= 9, in Mg-like and Be-like ions. The results are compared with Hartree-Fock calculations to investigate the influence of correlation and, to a lesser extent, relativistic effects. The theoretical spectra for Cl VI and the lifetimes of the 2s6g-levels in O V are in excellent agreement with experimental results. More limited calculations have also been done for some Rydberg series in S V and Ar VII to illustrate the changing influence of perturbers along the isoelectronic sequence. The difficulties of using isoelectronic extrapolation/interpolation in making predictions for this kind of systems are discussed.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

2815-2826

Publication/Series

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume

39

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Topic

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0953-4075