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Title: Isotope shifts of the 1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}({sup 1}S{sub 0}) {yields} 1s{sup 2}2p{sup 2}({sup 1}S{sub 0}) transition in the doubly ionized carbon ion C{sup 2+}

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 (United States)
  2. Quantum Chemistry Group, Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, ulica GrunwaPldzka 6, PL-60-780 Poznan (Poland)
  3. Institute of Physics, Nicholas Copernicus University, ulica GrudziaPdzka 5, PL-87-100 Torun (Poland)
  4. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)

Highly accurate quantum mechanical calculations are performed for the 1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2} ({sup 1}S{sub 0}) {yields} 1s{sup 2}2p{sup 2} ({sup 1}S{sub 0}) transition energy in the isotopomers of C{sup 2+} ion to determine the isotope shifts. Explicitly correlated Gaussian functions and a variational approach that explicitly includes the nuclear motion are employed in the calculations. The leading relativistic and quantum electrodynamics corrections to the transition energy are also calculated using the perturbation theory with the nonrelativistic wave function as the zero-order approximation. It is determined that the {sup 12}C{sup 2+} transitions energy, which is obtained from the calculations to be 182 519.031 cm{sup -1} (vs the experimental value of 182 519.88 cm{sup -1}, an excellent sub-wave-number agreement) up-shifts by 1.755 cm{sup -1} for {sup 13}C{sup 2+} and by additional 1.498 cm{sup -1} for {sup 14}C{sup 2+}. Those shifts are sufficiently large to be measured experimentally.

OSTI ID:
21408816
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.052504; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English