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Title: Quasiclassical effective Hamiltonian structure of atoms with [ital Z]=1 to 38

Journal Article · · Physical Review A; (United States)
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  1. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

The Kirschbaum-Wilets quasiclassical, many-body atomic model [Phys. Rev. A 21, 834 (1980)] is applied to atoms and ions having 1[le][ital Z][le]38. An efficient method was found to search for the global minimum of the energy functional. A quasiclassical shell structure is shown to result from the Hamiltonian formulation in terms of momentum-dependent potentials representing quantum-mechanical effects codified in the Heisenberg and Pauli principles. Along with ionization and correlation energies, the ground-state configurations are presented for use as initial conditions in various dynamical calculations.

OSTI ID:
6702874
Journal Information:
Physical Review A; (United States), Vol. 51:1; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English