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Helium-like and Lithium-like ions: Ground state energy

Atomic Physics 2017-11-27 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

It is shown that the non-relativistic ground state energy of helium-like and lithium-like ions with static nuclei can be interpolated in full physics range of nuclear charges ZZ with accuracy of not less than 6 decimal digits (d.d.) or 7-8 significant digits (s.d.) using a meromorphic function in appropriate variable with a few free parameters. It is demonstrated that finite nuclear mass effects do not change 4-5 s.d. for Z[1,50]Z \in [1,50] for 2-,3-electron systems and the leading relativistic and QED corrections leave unchanged 3-4 s.d. for Z[1,12]Z \in [1,12] in the ground state energy for 2-electron system, thus, the interpolation reproduces definitely those figures. A meaning of proposed interpolation is in a construction of unified, {\it two-point} Pade approximant (for both small and large ZZ expansions) with fitting some parameters at intermediate ZZ.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1707.07547,
  title  = {Helium-like and Lithium-like ions: Ground state energy},
  author = {Alexander V. Turbiner and Juan C. Lopez Vieyra and Horacio Olivares Pilon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07547},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 Tables, 21 references: analysis of leading relativistic and QED corrections added, one extra reference added, typos corrected