Calculations of relativistic, correlation, nuclear and quantum-electrodynamic corrections to energy and ionization potential of the ground state of helium-like ions
Abstract:
In this work, nonrelativistic and relativistic variational calculations of the energies and ionization potentials of the ground state of helium-like ions for the nuclear charges in the range $Z$ = 2 – 20 were performed.the leading corrections to the total energy were calculated including the contribution of electronic correlations, relativistic and quantum-electrodynamic (QED) corrections, and the contributions of the finite size ofnucleus (field shift) and the finite mass of the nucleus (recoil effect). Relativistic ņalculations of the wave functions were performed using the Dirac-Coulomb-Breit (DCB) Hamiltonian.
Keywords:He-like ions, relativistic calculations, configuration interaction, ionization potential, electron correlation, Breit interaction, field shift, recoil effect, QED corrections.