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Investigating properties of Cl$^-$ and Au$^-$ ions using relativistic many-body methods

Atomic Physics 2021-01-08 v1 Chemical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

We investigate ground state properties of singly charged chlorine (Cl^-) and gold (Au^-) negative ions by employing four-component relativistic many-body methods. In our approach, we attach an electron to the respective outer orbitals of chlorine (Cl) and gold (Au) atoms to determine the Dirac-Fock (DF) wave functions of the ground state configurations of Cl^- and Au^-, respectively. As a result, all the single-particle orbitals see the correlation effects due to the appended electron of the negative ion. After obtaining the DF wave functions, lower-order many-body perturbation methods, random-phase approximation, and coupled-cluster (CC) theory in the singles and doubles approximation are applied to obtain the ground state wave functions of both Cl^- and Au^- ions. Then, we adopt two different approaches to the CC theory -- a perturbative approach due to the dipole operator to determine electric dipole polarizability and an electron detachment approach in the Fock-space framework to estimate ionization potential. Our calculations are compared with the available experimental and other theoretical results.

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@article{arxiv.2101.02161,
  title  = {Investigating properties of Cl$^-$ and Au$^-$ ions using relativistic many-body methods},
  author = {B. K. Sahoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.02161},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 tables. Accepted for J. Phys. B