Calculation of Excited States of He Atoms in a Strong Magnetic Field

A recently developed B-spline algorithm is extended and utilized to calculate excited states of He atoms in the presence of strong magnetic fields. Binding energies are presented for He in the five excited atomic states 2¹0⁺, 1¹0^-, 2¹0^-, 1¹(-1)⁺, and 2¹(-1)⁺ with magnetic field strength ranging from 0.0001 to 10 a.u. The obtained energies are compared with available theoretical data, and found to be in good agreement. We investigate influence of magnetic fields on atomic structures of multielectron atoms, and illustrate that how electron probability density distributions change with increasing magnetic field strength. The current approach is directly applicable to simulations of discrete spectra for He atoms in the atmospheres of magnetized white dwarf stars.