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CHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

VOL. 49, NO. 6

December 2011

Excitation Energies and E1, E2, and M1 Transition Parameters for Ac III ¨ ∗ and Leyla Ozdemir ¨ G¨ uldem Urer Department of Physics, Sakarya University, 54187, Sakarya, Turkey (Received September 27, 2010) We report on a relativistic multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculation including the transverse Breit and quantum electrodynamic contribution on the low-lying level structure of doubly ionized actinium (Z = 89). Excitation energies and the electric dipole (E1) and quadrupole (E2) transition and the magnetic dipole (M1) transition parameters such as the wavelengths, oscillator strengths, and transition rates for the low-lying levels of Ac III are presented. Moreover, the results obtained are compared with a few other works from the available literature. PACS numbers: 31.15.ag, 31.15.V-, 32.70.Cs

I. INTRODUCTION

The spectrochemical detection or determination of actinium was reported by Meggers and coworkers [1, 2]. In addition, in their paper, there can be found details about the previous works on actinium. In pitchblende, actinium was found as a third new element after the discovery of radium and polonium. Actinium was separated from the other elements by chemical means and was revealed by its radioactivity. Actinium had never been concentrated in pure form from mineral sources because of its low abundance, radioactive instability, and lack of commercial uses. However, after the discovery of nuclear fission and the construction of uranium piles, neutrons became available in sufficient quantities to produce, by transmutation, ponderable amounts of any desired element. Discussion of the spectroscopy and chemistry for f -elements in molecules and solids is necessary for the understanding of the low-lying energies of actinide ions. The 7s valence orbital is more tightly bound than the 5f and 6d orbitals at low stages of ionization for all isotopes of actinium, while the 5f and 6d orbitals are more tightly bound for the highly ionized cases. Competition between the 5f , 6d, and 7s orbitals leads to problems for the calculations, making it difficult to obtain very accurate excitation energies and line strengths for the transitions between the low-lying 5f , 6d, and 7s states [3]. In calculating the level structure of a heavy element, one often faces difficulties which either do not occur for lowand medium-Z elements or are much less pronounced in those cases. These difficulties are strong relativistic and quantum dynamical (QED) effects; the low lying level structure of most of these elements is determined by a number of overlapping and nearly degenerated configurations, and further complexity arises from the large number of electrons, which ∗

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have to be treated explicitly in any ab initio theory in order to explain the low-lying spectra of such elements. Furthermore the short lifetimes and radioactivity of actinide elements obstruct also experimental work. The investigation of the level structure of f element atoms and ions (lanthanides and actinides), especially for the actinides, is more complex because of the great experimental difficulties and the difficulties in the assignment and interpretation of the enormous number of levels. The electronic structure of doubly ionized actinium consists of a single nl electron outside of a core with completely filled n = 1, 2, 3, 4 shells and 5s, 5p, 5d, 6s, and 6p subshells. There is little data on the Ac III structure. For the spectrochemical determination of actinium, the wavelengths and estimated relative intensities of 109 strong lines were presented, and 7 of them were assigned to Ac III by Meggers [1]. Brewer [4] presented the energies of the electronic configurations of the singly and doubly and triply ionized lanthanides and actinides. Eliav et al. [5] applied the relativistic coupled cluster method to the transition energies (ionization potentials, excitation energies, electron affinities) of lanthanum, actinium and eka-actinium in several ionization states. Both relativistic energy-consistent small-core ab initio pseudopotential and fully relativistic density functional all-electron calculations were carried out for the first to fourth ionization potential, as well as some excitation energies for a whole series of actinide atoms by Liu et al. [6]. A detailed investigation of the radiative parameters for the electric dipole transition in Fr-like ions with Z = 89–92 was presented by Bi´emont et al. [7]. Relativistic many-body perturbation theory was applied to study properties such as the excitation energies, polarizabilities, multipole transition rates, and lifetimes of ions along the francium isoelectronic sequence (Z = 89–100) by Safronova et al. [3]. Some data for actinide and its ions are available on the NIST atomic database [8] and the ACTINIDES website [9] TABLE I: Configuration TABLE I: Configuration sets considered for Ac III.sets considered for Ac Levels A B C 7s, 6d As in A A+6s7s2, 6s6d2, For even-parity 6s7p2, 6s5f2 5 2 5 2 5f, 7p A+6p 7s , 6p 6d , As in A For odd-parity 6p55f2

III. D As in C A+6s26p57s2, 6s26p57p2, 6s26p55f2

In this work we have calculated the excitation energies for the low-lying levels and radiative transition parameters such as wavelengths, oscillator strengths, and transition rates (probabilities) for the electric dipole and quadrupole and magnetic dipole in doubly ionized actinium using GRASP [10], based on a fully relativistic multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock (MCDF) method. We have here investigated four various configuration sets, including valence and outer core correlations besides the transverse Breit and quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects. These configuration sets considered the correlations which are given in Table I. We think that these calculation results can provide good information on the low energy levels of Ac III. These are very demanding calculations because of relativity and correlation. It is well known that available transition rate values in doubly ionized actinium are sparse. We hope that our results will be useful for other experimental and computational

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works about Ac III in the future. Moreover, it is mentioned that this work is a part of our continuing works on the level structure of f -elements [11–18].

II. CALCULATION METHOD

We will here briefly summarize the calculation method. A detailed description of MCDF theory may be found in [19–22]. In the MCDF method [10], an atomic state can be expanded as a linear combination of configuration state functions (CSFs), ψα (P JM ) =

nc ∑

cr (α) |γr P JM ⟩,

(1)

r=1

and is optimized usually on the basis of the many-electron Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian in form HDC =

N ∑ i=1

Hi +

N ∑ 1 , rij

(2)

i̸=j

where Hi is the one-electron Dirac Hamiltonian, including its kinetic energy and the interaction with the nucleus, Hi = c

3 ∑

α ⃗ k .⃗ pk + (βi − 1)c2 +

i=1

Z . ri

(3)

In (??), nc is the number of CSF, J and P are the total angular momentum and parity of the system, respectively; γr is a set of quantum numbers to specify CSF additional to JP , and {cr (α)} are the mixing coefficients and denote the representation of the atomic state. The CSF |γr P JM ⟩ are constructed from a product of a single electron wave function through a proper angular momentum coupling and anti-symmetrization of the basis states. cr (α) and the radial orbitals are optimized simultaneously, based on the expectation values ⟨ψα | HDC |ψα ⟩ of one or several atomic states in a self consistent field (SCF) procedure. Besides the Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian, the Breit interaction also plays an important role in understanding the electronic structure of heavy atoms. The Breit interaction arises from the relativistic retardation and the current-current interaction of fast-moving charges: ) ( N ∑ α ⃗ i .⃗ αj cos(ωij rij ) ( ⃗ ) ( ⃗ ) cos(ωij rij ) − 1 + α ⃗ i .∇i × α ⃗ j .∇j . (4) Htransverse = − 2r rij ωij ij i̸=j

This Hamiltonian can be also interpreted as the exchange of a single transverse photon. The Breit contributions are calculated in the low frequency limit (ωij → 0) by diagonalizing the Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian matrix. Another important contribution is the quantum electrodynamic (QED) contribution. The dominant QED contributions are self-energy and vacuum polarization, which are also

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included in the computations of the transition energy. The finite-nucleus effect is taken into account by assuming an extended Fermi distribution for the nucleus. Both the Breit and QED contributions are treated as perturbation and are not included directly in the SCF procedure. Orbitals are here fixed, but the mixing coefficients are calculated by diagonalizing the modified Hamiltonian. The oscillator strength for the transition from ASF (Atomic State Function) Γi to ASF Γj can be written ⟨

⟩ 2 πc

ˆ (L) (5) fi→j = O Γ P J Γ P J .

j j j i i i 2 (2L + 1)ω ˆ (L) is multipole radiation field operator of order L. This, in turn, can be expressed where O M in the terms of CSF matrix elements by



⟩ ⟨ ⟨ ⟩ ∑

ˆ (L)

ˆ (L) (6) crΓi crΓj γr Pr Jr O Γi Pi Ji O

Γj Pj Jj =

γ s P s Js , r,s

and this, in turn, as a sum of single-electron transition integrals using



⟨ ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ∑

ˆ (L)

ˆ (L) L dab (rs) na κa O nb κb , γr Pr Jr O γs Ps Js =

(7)

a,b

where dL ab are angular coefficients. Thus ) (

⟨ ⟩ ( (2j + 1)ω )1/2 ja L jb

ˆ (L) b ja −1/2 ¯ ab , na κa O nb κb = M (−1) 1/2 0 −1/2 πc

(8)

¯ ab is one of the radiative transition integrals defined by where M { e ¯ + GM ¯ I , for electric multipole transitions M ab ab ¯ Mab = m ¯ , for magnetic multipole transitions M ab [( ) [ ] ( L+1 )1/2 [ ]] + − ¯ e = −i L 1/2 (κa − κb )I + + (L + 1)I − M − (κ − κ )I − LI a b ab L+1 L+1 L−1 L−1 L+1 L {[ ] [ ] } , + − + − I ¯ Mab = −i (κa − κb )IL+1 + (L + 1)IL+1 + (κa − κb )IL−1 − LIL−1 − (2L + 1)JL , ¯ m = −iL+1 (2L+1)1/2 (κa + κb )I + , M ab L [L(L+1)] ∫∞ IL± = ∫ 0 drjL (ωr/c) (Pna κa (r)Qnb κb (r) ± Qna κa (r)Pnb κb (r)) , ∞ JL = 0 drjL (ωr/c) (Pna κa (r)Pnb κb (r) ± Qna κa (r)Qnb κb (r)) . (9) Here G is the gauge parameter; it takes the value [(L + 1)/L]1/2 in the Babushkin gauge.

III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

We have here presented a multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculation for the excitation energies of some low-lying levels and wavelengths, weighted oscillator strengths and transition rates (or probabilities) for the electric dipole (E1) and quadrupole (E2), and magnetic

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dipole (M1) transitions between these levels in doubly ionized actinium. The M1 and E2 transitions combine states with same parity, whereas the E1 transitions combine states with different parity. The calculation has been performed using the widely-used atomic structure package GRASP [10] based on the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method. The calculation of heavy atoms such as actinide atoms requires considering the Breit and quantum electrodynamic (QED) contributions besides the electron correlations. The MCDF code is known to be flexible with regard to the shell structure and the computation of—quite different types of—excitation and decay rates, but often suffers from the size of the wave function expansions which are needed to be treated explicitly [23]. Doubly ionized actinium has a rather simple electronic structure, with one electron moving in the resultant field of the nucleus and the 86 inner electrons. Outer correlation is expected to be small, but this may not be true for core-valence correlation. In addition relativistic effects must play a role. For heavy ions such as multiply ionized rare-earth (lanthanides and actinides), the consideration of both inter-valence (valence-valence) and core-valence correlation is essential for atomic structure calculations. For this reason, we have used four different configuration sets. We have considered the configurations including 6d, 7s, 7p, and 5f outside the [Rn] core according to the valence correlation. These configurations are given in Table I. In this table the configuration sets are denoted by A, B, C, and D. The B, C, and D configuration sets include the excitations from the 6p for oddparity, from the 6s for even-parity and from the 6s and 6p for both even- and odd-parity, respectively, whereas A includes only valence excitations. Table II displays the excitation energies of seven low-lying levels (3 for odd- and 4 for even-parity) for the four configuration sets given in Table I. The calculation of heavy atoms such as actinide atoms requires considering the Breit and quantum electrodynamic (QED) contributions besides the electron correlations. We have taken the configurations 7s, 6d, 7p, and 5f outside the [Rn] core for considering valence correlation. MCDF method has been widely used for studying the electronic structure of heavy elements such as actinium. This method has been found useful for providing accurate results. The MCDF code is known to be flexible with regard to the shell structure and the computation of—quite different types of—excitation and decay rates, but often suffers on the size of the wave function expansions which needed to be treated explicitly [23]. In Table II the columns represent the MCDF energies, E0 , MCDF plus Breit, E1 , and plus quantum electrodynamic, E2 , contributions, respectively. Comparison values have been placed into the last column. In addition, only odd-parity levels are indicated with the superscript “o ” in the table. The core-valence correlation could be considered by opening the 6s2 and 6p6 shells in the B, C, and D calculations. It is seen that some MCDF energy values, except for the 5f levels, are in agreement when compared with others. Energy values including the Breit- and QED contributions obtained from the calculation A for the 6d levels are often good. The levels 5f from the B and C calculation are somewhat good. For the 7p levels, the C calculation results are in agreement with the others. Especially the first excited level, the agreement between our results and the values from the Dirac-Coulomb Dirac-Coulomb-Breit CCSD method by Eliav et al. [5] is good. Also, other high excited levels are convenient with those of the all-order SD many-body method by Safronova et al. [3]. For improving the results,

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TABLE II: MCDF energies, E0 , MCDF plus Breit, E1 , and plus quantum electrodynamic, E2 , −1 contributions, (in(incm for Ac AcIII. III. contributions, cm )) for E0 E1 E2 Other Works 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00a, b, c, d, e A 1519.88 1573.63 1581.21 825 a, 801.0 b, c, 1266.28d, 1169.49d, B 1108.64 1148.63 1160.67 798.48e C 1941.16 2012.66 2022.66 D 457.53 423.59 436.795 6d 2D5/2 A 4064.74 4031.69 4039.28 4041 a, 4203.9 c, 4742.50d, 4589.25d, B 3674.53 3614.44 3626.50 4202.11e C 4419.93 4386.24 4396.27 D 3090.48 2966.98 2980.20 7p 2P1/2 A 28284.56 28249.99 28252.07 29303 a, 29466 b, 29465.9 c B 27020.54 26923.58 26930.02 C 29292.85 29322.47 29324.37 D 28047.03 28199.80 28204.52 5f 2F5/2 A 32926.88 33113.24 33120.83 24018 a, 23454 b, 23454.5 c B 27882.17 27981.72 27993.73 C 33480.04 33646.09 33656.17 D 29194.20 29293.62 29306.87 5f 2F7/2 A 34747.91 34807.32 34814.91 26420 a, 26080.2 c B 30130.42 30105.92 30118.10 C 35265.28 35297.09 35307.16 D 31152.24 31121.66 31134.94 7p 2P3/2 A 35933.73 35802.14 35810.00 37816 a, 38063.0 c B 35101.56 34905.61 34917.92 C 36806.53 36692.45 36702.89 D 35449.09 35475.97 35489.55 a Safronova et al. [3], b Brewer [4], c ACTINIDES web site [9], d Eliav et al. [5] (converted from eV a Safronova et al. [3], b Brewer [4], c ACTINIDES web site [9], d Eliav et al. [5] (converted from eV unit), e Moor [in 5] (converted from eV unit) Levels 7s 2S1/2 6d 2D3/2

it is necessary that there be selected the configurations including more filled 6s and 6p orbitals. In this case, the number of possible interacting configurations to be introduced in the model is rapidly increasing, and the computer limits quickly impose severe restrictions on that approach. The electric dipole transition parameters, such as wavelengths, λ, weighted oscillator strengths, gf -value, and weighted transition rates (or probabilities), gA, for Ac III are given in Table III. It is well known that the strongest transition is the electric dipole, E1, transition. For this reason the E1 transitions are labeled as allowed, whereas higher order electric and magnetic transitions are referred to as forbidden. We have obtained eight electric dipole transitions. Our results in this table do not include the transverse Breit and quantum electrodynamic contributions. In this table, the wavelengths for all transitions, except the 6d−5f transitions are seen to have a good agreement when compared with other works. The comparing values from [7] have been converted from log(gf ) values. Also, the

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TABLE III: Wavelengths, λ (in ˚ A), weighted oscillator strengths, gf -value, and weighted transition rates, gA (in s−1 ), for E1 transitions in Ac III. In this table, a(±b) denotes a×10±b . Ȝ (Å) Transitions

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6d

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D3/2 - 7p

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P3/2

6d

2

D5/2 - 7p

2

P3/2

7s

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S1/2 - 7p

2

6d

2

D3/2 - 7p

2

6d

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D3/2 - 5f

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F5/2

6d

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D5/2 - 5f

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F7/2

6d

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D5/2 - 5f

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F5/2

P1/2

P1/2

A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D

2782.900 2848.875 2716.908 2820.946 2905.807 2941.789 2868.175 2857.831 3137.846 3181.973 3087.696 3090.368 3535.496 3700.887 3413.802 3565.438 3736.266 3859.230 3656.081 3624.566 3184.003 3735.032 3170.689 3479.873 3259.116 3779.876 3241.979 3563.569 3464.746 4130.926 3441.143 3830.871

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2682.902a, b, c, e

2952.553 a, b, e

3392.78 a, b, c, e

3487.589 a, b, c, e

4413.089 a, b, e

4569.876 a, b, e

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1.55(8)b 1.63(9)c 1.55(9)c 1.22(8)b 1.19(8) 1.23(8)c 8.23(8) b 9.30(8) c 8.23(8) c 3.59(8) b 3.91(8) c 3.59(8) c 2.78(8) b 3.24(8) c 2.75(8) c 2.35(8) b 1.10(8) c 2.34(8) c 3.02(8) b 1.61(8) c 3.02(8) c 1.03(7) b 4.99(6) c 1.03(6) c

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NIST Atomic Spectra Database [8] (The values are taken from Meggers et al. [2], at the same time the values can be found in reference [1 and 7] except for the 5193.21 value), b Bi´emont et al. [7] (converted from log(gf ) value), c Safronova et al. [3].

weighted transition rates seem good. Only the weighted transition rates for the 6d − 5f transitions are somewhat poor. In Table IV we have considered the electric quadrupole, E2, and the magnetic dipole M1 transitions between some low-lying levels. In this table, the wavelength values belonging to the B calculation are not poor. There are no oscillator strength values for the E2 and M1 transitions in the literature. The transition rates are also not good except for the 6d − 7s transitions. But it is noted that the transition parameters for the E2 and M1 transitions,

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TABLE IV: Wavelengths, λ (in ˚ A), weighted oscillator strengths, gf -value, and transition rates, A (in s−1 ), for E2 and M1 transitions in Ac III. In this table, a(±b) denotes a×10±b . Ȝ M1 transitions in Ac III. In this table, a(±b) denotes a×10 Ȝ (Å) Transitions Other This Works Work E2 Transitions: 6d 2D3/2 - 7s 2S1/2 A 65794.55 124844a B 90200.20 C 51515.45 D 218564.56 6d 2D5/2 - 7s 2S1/2 A 24601.79 B 27214.36 C 22624.77 D 32357.34 6d 2D5/2 - 6d 2D3/2 A 39294.87 23787.4a B 38972.90 C 40342.60 D 37980.09 5f 2F5/2 - 7p 2P1/2 A 21540.98 B 116058.83 C 23882.34 D 87170.98 7p 2P3/2 - 7p 2P1/2 A 13073.32 B 12374.67 C 13309.05 D 13509.76 5f 2F7/2 - 5f 2F5/2 A 54913.99 B 44479.09 C 56014.94 D 51071.69 7p 2P3/2 - 5f 2F5/2 A 33257.41 B 13851.58 C 30061.71 D 15987.50 7p 2P3/2 - 5f 2F7/2 A 84329.90 B 20116.10 C 64882.32 D 23272.84 M1 Transitions: 7s 2S1/2 - 6d 2D3/2 A 65794.55 124844a B 90200.20 C 51515.45 D 218564.5 6d 2D3/2 - 6d 2D5/2 A 39294.87 B 38972.90 C 40342.60 D 37980.09 7p 2P1/2 - 7p 2P3/2 A 13073.32 B 12374.67 C 13309.05 D 13509.76 5f 2F5/2 - 5f 2F7/2 A 54913.99 B 44479.09 Ȝ C 56014.94 D 51071.69 Work Works 5f 2F5/2 - 7p 2P3/2 A 33257.41 B 13851.58 C 15987.50 D 30061.71 a a Safronova et al. [3]

Safronova et al. [3]

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2.389(-5) 4.021(-6) 6.294(-5) 5.433(-8) 3.583(-3) 1.781(-3) 4.276(-3) 8.352(-4) 7.128(-5) 6.226(-5) 4.810(-5) 8.228(-5) 2.879(-3) 6.077(-7) 1.249(-3) 2.108(-6) 3.373(-1) 4.378(-1) 2.233(-1) 2.068(-1) 2.139(-6) 4.622(-6) 1.562(-6) 1.906(-6) 1.313(-4) 1.004(-2) 1.555(-4) 4.104(-3) 8.660(-6) 1.067(-2) 2.304(-5) 4.292(-3)

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even the E1 transitions, in the literature are very fragmentary and scarce. Experimental work for actinides is very difficult because of their radioactivity. Spectroscopic parameters such as oscillator strengths, transition rates (probabilities) are fundamental characteristics of excited states of atoms and ions. Therefore the values presented here should be very useful in the fields of quantum electronics, atomic and laser spectroscopy, plasma physics, and astrophysics.

IV. CONCLUSION

In summary, in this work, the calculation on the level structure of Ac III (Z = 89) has been performed using the MCDF atomic code, GRASP [10]. The excitation energies of levels and electric dipole and quadrupole, and magnetic dipole transition parameters between these levels have been investigated in the framework of the transverse Breit and quantum electrodynamic (QED) contributions and presented in tables. We think that the results obtained from this work will be useful for the theoretical and experimental studies for the level structure of doubly ionized actinium in the future.

Acknowledgements The authors are very grateful to the anonymous reviewer for stimulating comments and valuable suggestions, which resulted in improving the presentation of the paper.

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