Johnson W.R. Atomic Structure Theory: Lectures on Atomic Physics

Springer, 2007. – 317 p. – ISBN: 9783540680109This is a set of lecture notes prepared for a course on Atomic Physics for second-year graduate students, first given at the University of Notre Dame during the spring semester of 1994. My aim in this course was to provide opportunities for “hands-on” practice in the calculation of atomic wave functionsand energies.
The lectures started with a review of angular momentum theory including the formal rules for manipulating angular momentum operators, a discussion of orbital and spin angular momentum, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and threej symbols. This material should have been familiar to the students from first-year Quantum Mechanics. More advanced material on angular momentum needed in atomic st ucture calculations followed, including an introduction to graphical methods, irreducible tensor operators, spherical spinors and vector spherical harmonics.Angular Momentum
Central-Field Schr¨ odinger Equation
Self-Consistent Fields
Atomic Multiplets
Hyperfine Interaction & Isotope Shift
Radiative Transitions
Introduction to MBPT
MBPT for Matrix Elements