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Main Authors: Song, Chang-Xian, Tang, Yong-Bo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25515
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  • We report relativistic many-body calculations of the interelectronic-interaction correction to the Landé $g$-factor of the $2s_{1/2}$, $2p_{1/2}$, $2p_{3/2}$, and $3s_{1/2}$ states in lithium-like ions with nuclear charge $Z = 4-20$. Starting from the Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian, we treat positive-energy contributions using the coupled-cluster method with single and double excitations and include negative-energy contributions through third-order perturbation theory. We observe that negative-energy states give a state-dependent correction whose magnitude and sign vary with both Z and the state; for $2p_{1/2}$, the correction from the negative-energy states reaches 30\% of the total interelectronic-interaction contribution at $Z = 20$. Agreement with previous high-precision calculations is better than $0.1\%$, confirming the reliability of the present approach. This work may serve as a valuable reference for future precise calculations of $g$-factors for many-electron atomic systems.