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  • 13 - Many-Electron Systems

  • Uri Peskin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
  • Book:
    Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering
    Published online:
    11 May 2023
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023, pp 200-236

  • Summary

    The foundations for understanding the electronic structure of many-electron atoms are introduced. We start from the discovery of the spin and introduce spin operators. The spin existence is shown to “upgrade” the state of single particles into a product space with the spin subspace, and to impose constraints on states of identical particles, which must be symmetric (bosons) or antisymmetric (fermions) under particle transpositions. The many-electron state in the atom is therefore approximated as an antisymmetrized products (Slater determinant) of single-electron states (spin-orbitals). The variationally optimal orbitals are shown to be solutions to the Hartree–Fock equations, and the assignment of electrons to these orbitals in the atomic ground state reflects the Pauli exclusion and Aufbau principles, thus explaining the trends in the periodic table of the elements in terms of their electronic configurations. Special attention is given to two-electron systems, demonstrating the exchange stabilization of triplet versus singlet states (Hund’s rule).