An elementary algebraic method for approximating average radii of first and second ring electrons

DOI10.1016/0377-0427(86)90178-0MaRDI QIDQ1087315zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donald Greenspan

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0427(86)90178-0

zbMATH Keywords

electron spinmagnetic interactionNewton's methodrelativistic quantum mechanical estimates of average atomic radiiring sizessmall atoms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Review text

The author considers various small atoms. He assumes that if two particles are unpaired the force is coulombic and that if they are paired the mutual force is proportional to \(r^{-2-\alpha}\), \(\alpha >0\) where r is the distance between the particles. \(\alpha\) accounts for effects such as electron spin and magnetic interaction. He writes down the energy due to the mutual interaction of the particles, and equates this to an appropriate ionization energy. From this estimates of the ring sizes can be obtained. It is shown that \(\alpha\) is about 0.03 in all cases. In general the work reports the results of numerical calculations.

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