Relativistic Theory of Atoms and Molecules

The project that finally led to this book was originally started with Dr. Jean-Paul Desclaux. It is a pleasure to thank hirn for a fruitful collaboration stretching over more than a decade. While accepting the responsibility for any remaining errors and omissions I wish to acknowledge in particular the comments by Teijo Aberg Viktor Flambaum Burkhard Fricke Franz Mark and Arne Rosen. The Bibliography was compiled using a Fortran program written for the DEC 20 at the University of Turku by Matti Hotokka and adap- ted to the University of Helsinki Burroughs 7800 by Dage Sundholm. Harriet Björnström did most of the typing and Käthe Ramsay cross- checked the text against the Bibliography. Readers interested in obtaining a Wordstar-readable IBM PC compatible diskette file (about 520 kb on a two-sided diskette) of the Bibliography should contact the author - Helsinki 20 August 1986 Pekka Pyykkö CONTENTS 1. Introduction ................................................. 1 Table 1.1. Managraphs and ather general references ........... 2 2. One-particle problems ........................................ 5 2.1. Special relativity and the ald quantum theary ........... 5 2.2. On the Klein-Gardon equation ............................ 5 2.3. The Dirac equation ...................................... 6 Table 2.l. The Dirac equation: interpretative studies symmetry properties and non-relativistic limits ............ 7 Table 2.2. The Dirac equation: further transformations ...... 13 Table 2.3. The Dirac equation: solutions for hydrogen-like systems. . ........................................ 1 6 Table 2.4. The Dirac equations: solutions for various n- coulomb fields. . ................................. 21 Table 2.5. Relativistic virial theorems ..................... 26 3. Quantum electrodynamical effects ............................ 27 Table 3.1.