Results of calculations of atomic wave functions. II.—Results for K + and Cs +

Abstract

In a recent papers I presented the results of calculations of approximate wave functions of two atoms, based on the method of the “self-consistent field”, these calculations having been carried out to a fairly high degree of numerical accuracy (for work of this kind) as regards both precision of the work and the approximation to the self-consistent field attained, in order that the results published should be quite dependable. I also gave a survey of the situation which led to such calculations being undertaken, and mentioned other atoms for which they were being made. This paper presents a second instalment of such results, namely, those for the atoms K + and Cs + . Of these atoms, Cs is the heaviest for which calculations of the self-consistent field have so far been completed, though work on a still heavier atom, namely, mercury, has been started, and it is hoped that rough results, at least, will be available before long.