Application of coupled equation method on resonance processes of atomic lithium

The coupled equation method (CEM) has been applied to investigating the resonance structures for the ground state ls~22s~2S of the neutral lithium from the first threshold up to 64.5 eV.Resonance structures of atomic lithium due to single excitations of the ls and 2s electrons are studied by infinite-order calculations in detail.The effect of spin-orbit splitting is also included for some of the low-lying ls2snp(↑↓) resonance, and the influence of the interference between ls2s ~3Snp↓and ls2s ~1Snp↑states on the resonance structure has been confirmed theoretically.The results show that the presented technique can give the reasonable resonance structures very well in photoionization processes.