scholarly journals Regularized perturbative series for the ionization potential of atomic ions

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Gil ◽  
Augusto González

We study N-electron atoms with nuclear charge Z. It is well known that, in the cationic (Z > N) large-Z region, the atom behaves as a weakly interacting system. The anionic (Z < N) regime, on the other hand, is characterized by an instability threshold at [Formula: see text], below which the atom spontaneously emits an electron. We construct a regularized perturbative series (RPS) for the ionization potential that is based on the behaviors for large Z and Z near Zc. The large-Z expansion coefficients are analytically computed from perturbation theory, whereas the slope of the energy curve at Z = N − 1 is computed from a kind of zero-range forces theory that uses as input the electron affinity and the covalent radius of the neutral atom with N − 1 electrons. Relativistic effects in the one-particle Hamiltonian are considered at the level of first-order perturbation theory. Our RPS formula is to be used to check the consistency of the ionization potential values for atomic ions contained in the NIST database.

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (24) ◽  
pp. 1350178 ◽  
Author(s):  
GABRIEL GIL ◽  
AUGUSTO GONZALEZ

We study atoms with N electrons, and nuclear charge Z. It is well known that the cationic regime, Z > N, is qualitatively described by Thomas–Fermi theory. The anionic regime, Z < N, on the other hand, is characterized by an instability threshold at Zc ≲ N-1, below which the atom spontaneously emits an electron. We compute the slope of the energy curve at Z = N - 1 by means of a simple model that depends on the electron affinity and the covalent radius of the neutral atom with N - 1 electrons. This slope is used in order to estimate Zc, which is compared with previous numerical results. Extrapolation of the linear behavior in the opposite direction, up to Z = N, allows us to estimate the ionization potential of the atom with N electrons. The fact that the obtained ionization potentials are qualitatively correct is an indication that, with regard to certain properties, neutral atoms are closer to the anionic instability threshold than they are to the Thomas–Fermi, large Z, region. A regularized series is written for the ionization potential that fits both, the large Z and Z → Zc limits.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo O. Heymans ◽  
Marcus Benghi Pinto

Abstract We apply the optimized perturbation theory (OPT) to resum the perturbative series describing the mass gap of the bidimensional ϕ4 theory in the ℤ2 symmetric phase. Already at NLO (one loop) the method is capable of generating a quite reasonable non-perturbative result for the critical coupling. At order-g7 we obtain gc = 2.779(25) which compares very well with the state of the art N8LO result, gc = 2.807(34). As a novelty we investigate the supercritical region showing that it contains some useful complimentary information that can be used in extrapolations to arbitrarily high orders.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuichiro Kitano ◽  
Hiromasa Takaura ◽  
Shoji Hashimoto

Abstract We perform a numerical computation of the anomalous magnetic moment (g − 2) of the electron in QED by using the stochastic perturbation theory. Formulating QED on the lattice, we develop a method to calculate the coefficients of the perturbative series of g − 2 without the use of the Feynman diagrams. We demonstrate the feasibility of the method by performing a computation up to the α3 order and compare with the known results. This program provides us with a totally independent check of the results obtained by the Feynman diagrams and will be useful for the estimations of not-yet-calculated higher order values. This work provides an example of the application of the numerical stochastic perturbation theory to physical quantities, for which the external states have to be taken on-shell.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Spavieri ◽  
Espen Gaarder Haug

We consider a thought experiment, equivalent to the Sagnac effect, where a light signal performs a round trip over a closed path. If special relativity (SR) adopts Einstein synchronization, the result of the experiment shows that the local light speed cannot be c in every section of the closed path. No inconsistencies are found when adopting absolute synchronization. Since Einstein and absolute synchronizations can be discriminated, the conventionality of the one-way speed of light holds no longer. Thus, as sustained by specialists, it might be a viable formulation of SR that reinstates the conservation of simultaneity, even though it allows for relativistic effects, such as time dilation. Such an approach may lead to the discovery of new effects and a better understanding of relativistic theories.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 1460442
Author(s):  
DIOGO BOITO

In the extraction of αs from hadronic τ decay data several moments of the spectral functions have been employed. Furthermore, different renormalization group improvement (RGI) frameworks have been advocated, leading to conflicting values of αs. Recently, we performed a systematic study of the perturbative behavior of these moments in the context of the two main-stream RGI frameworks: Fixed Order Perturbation Theory (FOPT) and Contour Improved Perturbation Theory (CIPT). The yet unknown higher order coefficients of the perturbative series were modelled using the available knowledge of the renormalon singularities of the QCD Adler function. We were able to show that within these RGI frameworks some of the commonly employed moments should be avoided due to their poor perturbative behavior. Furthermore, under reasonable assumptions about the higher order behavior of the perturbative series FOPT provides the preferred RGI framework.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (44) ◽  
pp. 25593-25605
Author(s):  
Ivan Marri ◽  
Michele Amato ◽  
Matteo Bertocchi ◽  
Andrea Ferretti ◽  
Daniele Varsano ◽  
...  

Surface chemistry effects are calculated within the many body perturbation theory for Si(100), Ge(100) and SiGe surfaces.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul-Hermann Balduf

Abstract We consider a scalar quantum field ϕ with arbitrary polynomial self-interaction in perturbation theory. If the field variable ϕ is repaced by a global diffeomorphism ϕ(x) = ρ(x) + a1ρ2(x) + …, this field ρ obtains infinitely many additional interaction vertices. We propose a systematic way to compute connected amplitudes for theories involving vertices which are able to cancel adjacent edges. Assuming tadpole graphs vanish, we show that the S-matrix of ρ coincides with the one of ϕ without using path-integral arguments. This result holds even if the underlying field has a propagator of higher than quadratic order in the momentum. The diffeomorphism can be tuned to cancel all contributions of an underlying ϕt-type self interaction at one fixed external offshell momentum, rendering ρ a free theory at this momentum. Finally, we mention one way to extend the diffeomorphism to a non-diffeomorphism transformation involving derivatives without spoiling the combinatoric structure of the global diffeomorphism.


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