Relativistic Transitions in the Hydrogenic Atoms

When one approaches the study of the quantal relativistic theory of the electron, one may be surprised by the gap which lies between the frame of the experiments, i.e. the real geometry of the space and time, and the abstraction of the complex matrices and spinors formalism employed in the presentat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boudet, R. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
Series:Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 52
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85550-7
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The electromagnetic fields created by time-sinusoidal current
  • 2. The Dirac equation of the electron in the real formalism
  • 3. The solutions of the Dirac equation for the central potential in the real formalism
  • 4. The Dirac transition currents between two states
  • 5. The field at large distance created by the transition currents
  • 6. Case of the transitions P1/2-S1/2 and P3/2-S1/2
  • 7. Interaction with an incident wave. The retardation
  • 8. Relativistic expression of the matrix elements
  • 9. The radial functions of the continuum. 10. Matrix elements for the transitions 1S1/2-continuum
  • 11. Matrix elements for the relativistic transitions with retardation 1S1/2-continuum
  • 12. The radiative recombination
  • 13. The Zeeman effect.