General expressions for Stevens and Racah operator equivalents

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Duros, Octave, Juhin, Amélie, Elnaggar, Hebatalla, Chiuzbăian, Gheorghe Sorin, Brouder, Christian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866929711189327872
author Duros, Octave
Juhin, Amélie
Elnaggar, Hebatalla
Chiuzbăian, Gheorghe Sorin
Brouder, Christian
author_facet Duros, Octave
Juhin, Amélie
Elnaggar, Hebatalla
Chiuzbăian, Gheorghe Sorin
Brouder, Christian
contents Several definitions of the crystal field have been used over time and their variety has lead to many misunderstandings, in both theoretical and experimental literature. Two categories of definitions can be mentioned, the first being the operators equivalents introduced by Stevens in 1952 and the second being the crystal-field operators, introduced by different authors from 1962 and expanded on the Racah spherical tensors. This paper aims at providing some clarification in this field. We first make a review of several expressions introduced in various references to compute crystal-field operators and we describe connections between them. Then, we introduce an explicit way to compute crystal-field operators, in terms of angular momentum quantum numbers $j$ and $m$ as well as in terms of $J^2$ and $J_z$ operators. We eventually give some connections between the Stevens operators equivalents and the crystal-field operators, and make usage of the coefficients of fractional parentage for the expression of the crystal-field operators for the many-body states. Various computational codes, using different crystal-field conventions, are also reviewed.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2405_08978
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle General expressions for Stevens and Racah operator equivalents
Duros, Octave
Juhin, Amélie
Elnaggar, Hebatalla
Chiuzbăian, Gheorghe Sorin
Brouder, Christian
Chemical Physics
Several definitions of the crystal field have been used over time and their variety has lead to many misunderstandings, in both theoretical and experimental literature. Two categories of definitions can be mentioned, the first being the operators equivalents introduced by Stevens in 1952 and the second being the crystal-field operators, introduced by different authors from 1962 and expanded on the Racah spherical tensors. This paper aims at providing some clarification in this field. We first make a review of several expressions introduced in various references to compute crystal-field operators and we describe connections between them. Then, we introduce an explicit way to compute crystal-field operators, in terms of angular momentum quantum numbers $j$ and $m$ as well as in terms of $J^2$ and $J_z$ operators. We eventually give some connections between the Stevens operators equivalents and the crystal-field operators, and make usage of the coefficients of fractional parentage for the expression of the crystal-field operators for the many-body states. Various computational codes, using different crystal-field conventions, are also reviewed.
title General expressions for Stevens and Racah operator equivalents
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08978