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Phys. Rev. A 71, 032712 (2005) [5 pages]

Anisotropic van der Waals coefficients for He(1 1S)–He(2 3P)

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J.-Y. Zhang1, Z.-C. Yan1, D. Vrinceanu2, and H. R. Sadeghpour2
1Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3
2ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Received 10 November 2004; published 17 March 2005

We report on the anisotropic mass-dependent dispersion coefficients C6(M=0,±1) for He(1 1S)–He(2 3P) interaction using two different techniques. The first is a highly accurate Hylleraas basis-set diagonalization, while the second method is a semiempirical assessment based on tabulated oscillator strengths and available photoionization cross sections. The results from the two techniques agree to within 1.5%.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.032712
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.71.032712
PACS:
34.20.Cf, 31.15.Ar, 31.15.Ct