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Atoms, Volume 10, Issue 3

September 2022 - 29 articles

Cover Story: About half a century ago, Amusia showed that the photoionization of the noble gas atoms could be described quite accurately using random-phase approximation with exchange (RPAE). RPAE includes two-particle two-hole correlations in the initial state of the photoionization process and coupling among the ionization channels in the final state, essentially configuration interaction in the continuum. Walter Johnson and his co-workers developed a relativistic version, the relativistic-random-phase approximation (RRPA). This advance allowed us to study heavier systems. In this paper, historical reasons behind the term “random phase approximation” are revisited and an exposition of the random-phase approximation is presented. A few illustrative advances using the RRPA are also presented. View this paper
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Articles (29)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,873 Views
10 Pages

19 September 2022

Hydrogen atoms, being subjected to a strong magnetic field, exhibit an additional, delocalized potential well at almost a microscopic distance from the nucleus. We studied the influence of the delocalized states of hydrogen atoms on the number of obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,064 Views
19 Pages

Relativistic Atomic Structure of Au IV and the Os Isoelectronic Sequence: Opacity Data for Kilonova Ejecta

  • Zahra Sadat Taghadomi,
  • Yier Wan,
  • Alicia Flowers,
  • Phillip Stancil,
  • Brendan McLaughlin,
  • Steven Bromley,
  • Joan Marler,
  • Chad Sosolik and
  • Stuart Loch

13 September 2022

Direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) on 17 August 2017, propagating from a binary neutron star merger, or a “kilonova”, opened the era of multimessenger astronomy. The ejected material from neutron star mergers, or “kilonov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,756 Views
13 Pages

11 September 2022

This paper presents an analysis of data on the cross sections of elastic and inelastic collisions of electrons with noble gases, alkali and other atoms. For the selected sets of experimental and theoretical data, optimal analytical formulas are found...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,551 Views
14 Pages

Electron-Impact Ionization of the Tungsten Ions: W38+ − W45+

  • Runjia Bao,
  • Junkui Wei,
  • Bowen Li and
  • Ximeng Chen

9 September 2022

In this manuscript, we present our calculations of detailed electron-impact single ionization cross-sections for tungsten ions, spanning charge states W38+− W45+. The level-to-level distorted-wave method implemented in the flexible atomic code...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,620 Views
20 Pages

Chemical Characterization for the Detection of Impurities in Tainted and Natural Curcuma longa from India Using LIBS Coupled with PCA

  • Tejmani Kumar,
  • Abhishek Kumar Rai,
  • Abhishek Dwivedi,
  • Rohit Kumar,
  • Mohammad Azam,
  • Vinti Singh,
  • Neelam Yadav and
  • Awadhesh Kumar Rai

9 September 2022

The present manuscript explores a spectroscopic technique to select turmeric powder, free from impurities, and has compounds of medicinal importance among the tainted and natural turmeric. Six Curcuma longa (turmeric powder) samples, named S1, S2, S3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,139 Views
7 Pages

9 September 2022

Charge-exchange cross sections in Be4+ + H(1s) collisions are calculated using the three-body classical trajectory Monte Carlo method (CTMC) and the quasi-classical trajectory Monte Carlo method of Kirschbaum and Wilets (QCTMC) for impact energies be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,062 Views
8 Pages

7 September 2022

Amusia and Kheifets in 1984 introduced a Green’s function formalism to describe the effect of many-electron correlation on the ionization spectra of atoms. Here, we exploit this formalism to model the shake-off (SO) process, leading to the non-...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,255 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2022

In light of the immense interest in understanding the impact of an electron on atoms in the low-energy scattering phenomena observed in laboratories and astrophysical processes, we propose an approach to construct potentials using relativistic couple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,728 Views
11 Pages

A Progress Report on Laser Resonance Chromatography

  • Elisa Romero Romero,
  • Michael Block,
  • Biswajit Jana,
  • Eunkang Kim,
  • Steven Nothhelfer,
  • Sebastian Raeder,
  • Harry Ramanantoanina,
  • Elisabeth Rickert,
  • Jonas Schneider and
  • Philipp Sikora
  • + 1 author

6 September 2022

Research on superheavy elements enables probing the limits of nuclear existence and provides a fertile ground to advance our understanding of the atom’s structure. However, experimental access to these atomic species is very challenging and oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,101 Views
10 Pages

Absolute Double-Differential Cross Sections of Ultrasoft Isochromatic X-ray Radiation in Electron Scattering on Atoms

  • Aleksei S. Kornev,
  • Boris A. Zon,
  • Vladislav E. Chernov,
  • Miron Ya. Amusia,
  • Petr Kubelík and
  • Martin Ferus

24 August 2022

We calculate double-differential cross sections of ultrasoft X-ray bremsstrahlung in electron scattering by Ar, Kr, and Xe atoms in the soft-photon approximation. The calculations are done for the isochromatic spectra (i.e., dependence on the electro...

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