Semiclassical cycle expansion for the helium atom
Semiclassical cycle expansion for the helium atom
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氦原子的半经典循环展开
DOI:
10.1088/0953-4075/24/17/001
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发表时间:
1991
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通讯作者:
D. Wintgen
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作者:
G. S. Ezra;K. Richter;G. Tanner;D. Wintgen
We analyse the classical dynamics of near-collinear electron configurations in helium. The dynamics turns out to be fully chaotic. An application of periodic orbit quantization techniques yields the energy of doubly excited states with high accuracy. The analysis shows that near-collinear intra-shell resonances are associated with an asymmetric stretch like molion of the electron pair rather than the symmetric stretch motion along the Wannier ridge. The purpose of this letter is threefold. We first analyse the classical dynamics for near-collinear arrangements of the two electrons in the helium atom. We find strong evidence that the resulting motion is fully chaotic in the corresponding symmetry plane whereas the linearized motion of the plane is stable. We then apply modern semi- classical techniques to quantize the chaotic dynamics and obtain the energies of certain doubly excited states. Finally, our results (together with numerically highly accurate quantum mechanical calculations) unambiguously show that the widely accepted viewpoint of electron pair propagation along the Wannier ridge for doubly excited 11 Prrmanent address: Max-Planck lnrlitut Tir Kcmphyrik. Postfach 103980. 6900 Heidelberg. Federal Republic of Gemany.