离化态原子基态电子结构特征与轨道竞争规律∗

摘要

Ionized atoms widely exist in plasmas, and studies of properties of ionized atoms are the foundations of frontier science researches such as astrophysics and controlled nuclear fusions. For example, the information about the ground configurations of atoms is required for accurately calculating the physical quantities such as energy levels and dynamical processes. The configurations for different ionized atoms can be obtained with the photo-electron energy spectrum exper-iment, however it is very time-consuming to obtain so many data of all ions. Therefore the more economical theoretical study will be of great importance. As is well known, the configurations of neutral atoms can be determined according to Mendeleev order while those of highly ionized atoms are hydrogen-like due to the strong Coulombic potential of their nuclei. Then with the variations of ionization degree and atomic number along the periodic table, there would appear the interesting competitions between electronic orbitals. Although some theoretical results exist for ions 3 6 Z 6 118, 3 6 N e 6 105 (where Z is the atomic number and N e is the electron number), there are many errors in the results for highly ionized atoms. Therefore, the ground configurations of ionized atoms and their orbital competitions still deserve to be systematically studied. Based on the independent electron approximation, we calculate the energy levels of all possible competition con-figurations of all the neutral and ionized atoms in the extended periodic tables (2 6 Z 6 119) by Dirac-Slater method. Then the ground configurations are determined by calculating the chosen lowest total energy. The advantages of Dirac-Slater method are as follows. 1) It has been shown that the Dirac-Slater calculation is accurate enough for studying the ground properties of atoms, such as the 1st threshold, and that higher accuracy will be obtained for highly ionized atoms, because the electron correlation becomes less important. 2) Furthermore, with Dirac-Slater method we can ob-tain the localized self-consistent potential, thereby we can study the orbital competition rules for different atoms. Using the three of our designed atomic orbital competition graphs, all of our calculated ground configurations for over 7000 ionized atoms are conveniently expressed. We systematically summarize the rules of orbital competitions for different elements in different periods. We elucidate the mechanism of orbital competition (i.e., orbital collapsing) with the help of self-consistent atomic potential of ionized atoms. Also we compare the orbital competition rules for different periods of transition elements, the rare-earth and transuranium elements with the variation of the self-consistent filed for different periods. On this basis, we summarize the relationship between the orbital competitions and some bulk properties forsome elements, such as the superconductivity, the optical properties, the mechanical strength, and the chemistry activ-ities. We find that there exist some “abnormal” orbital competitions for some lowly ionized and neutral atoms which may lead to the unique bulk properties for the element. With the ground state electronic structures of ionized atoms, we can construct the basis of accurate quasi-complete configuration interaction (CI) calculations, and further accurately calculate the physical quantities like the energy levels, transition rates, collision cross section, etc. Therefore we can meet the requirements of scientific researches such as the analysis of high-power free-electron laser experiments and the accurate measurement of the mass of nuclei.%离化态原子广泛存在于等离子体物质中，其相关性质是天体物理、受控核聚变等前沿科学研究领域的重要基础。基于独立电子近似，本文系统研究了扩展周期表元素(26 Z 6119)所有中性和离化态原子的基态电子结构。基于设计的原子轨道竞争图，系统总结了各周期元素轨道竞争的规律，并结合离化态原子的局域自洽势阐明了其轨道竞争(即轨道塌陷)的机制；在此基础上，说明了部分元素性质与轨道竞争的关系。利用本文研究得到的离化态原子基态电子结构，可建立更精密计算相关原子的能级结构、跃迁几率等物理量之基础，从而满足高功率自由电子激光实验分析、原子核质量精密测量等前沿研究的需求。