A new Bohr-Rydberg spectrum of two-electron states
- 14 December 1983
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 16 (23) , L699-L705
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/16/23/002
Abstract
Recently observed states in He- in which two electrons reach high levels of excitation are shown to fit a Rydberg sequence of bound-state energy levels in a six-dimensional Coulomb potential (1/R). Thereby, these states provide conclusive evidence for a new class of quantised energy levels residing at the 'Wannier saddle point' of the two-electron system. In the vicinity of this saddle point of the potential surface, the system reduces to that of a single particle in an attractive Coulomb potential in the six-dimensional hyperspherical radius R=(r12+r22)12/. Energy positions, angular momentum aspects and intensity ratios of the observed states are all in conformity with this picture.Keywords
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