Atomic Structure Theory: Lectures on Atomic Physics

Atomic Structure Theory is a textbook for students with a background in quantum mechanics. The text is designed to give handson experience with atomic structure calculations. Material covered includes angular momentum methods, the central field Schrdinger and Dirac equations, Hartree Fock and Dirac Hartree Fock equations, multiplet structure, hyperfine structure, the isotope shift, dipole and multipole transitions, basic manybody perturbation theory, configuration interaction, and correlation corrections to matrix elements. Numerical methods for solving the Schrdinger and Dirac eigenvalue problems and the (Dirac)Hartree Fock equations are given as well. Bspline basis sets are used to carry out sums arising in higherorder manybody calculations. Illustrative problems are provided, together with solutions. FORTRAN programs implementing the numerical methods in the text are included.