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 Bjornstrom did most of the typing and Kathe 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 Pyykko 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.