Electronic Structure of the Transition Elements

Abstract

Numerical Hartree–Fock functions have been determined for the ground states and first excited states of the configurations 3dN4s0 and 3dN4s2 for the negative ions, neutral atoms, and first four positive ions of all the transition elements. The validity of the approximation, embodied in the use of a single set of parameters determined from the ground state function of a configuration for the prediction of the spectroscopic levels arising from it, has been examined in detail in the case of Fe I, 3d64s2, where independent calculations have been carried out for all the excited states.