Decay rates of select magnetic quadrupole transitions in helium |
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| Authors: | S. A. Alexander R. L. Coldwell |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX 78626;2. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 |
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| Abstract: | Using a set of explicitly correlated trial wavefunctions that describe the three lowest singlet and triplet states of the helium atom with symmetry S, P, and D, we calculate the decay rates for all possible magnetic quadrupole (M2) transitions: m3P2→n1S0, m1P1→n3S1, m3D3→n1P1, and m1D2→n3P2. Our values are in excellent agreement with the best results in the literature. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011 |
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| Keywords: | helium atom decay rates magnetic quadrupole (M2) Monte Carlo |
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