Breit interaction in heavy atoms

2000/04/28 by M. G. Kozlov, Kozlov, M. G., S. G. Porsev +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0004076

7 pages, LaTeX, uses IOP style, no figures. Submitted to JPB

arxiv created 2000/04/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

In this letter we discuss how to include Breit interaction in calculations of low-energy properties of heavy atoms in accurate and effective way. In order to illustrate our approach we give some results for Cs and Tl.

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