Applicability of the spin-orbit sum rule for the actinide 5f states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Van Der Laan, G ^a   Moore, K T ^b   Tobin, J G ^b   Chung, B W ^b   Wall, M A ^b   Schwartz, A J ^b  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACTINIDES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

DIPOLES; HIGH-INTENSITY PEAKS; HYBRIDIZATION; MOMENTUM; ORBITALS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

EID: 19544363399     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.097401     Document Type: Article

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