No abstract

The ionization potentials, transition energies, and oscillator strengths of Li and Li-like C 3+ and Al 10+ are computed at different plasma environments with the Fock-space multireference coupled-cluster theory to examine the parametric dependence of these properties on plasma density and/or temperature. The results presented here show that the ionization and transition energies as well as the oscillator strengths are very sensitive to the plasma environment. It further shows that the spectral lines corresponding to n = 0 transitions for Li-like C 3+ and Al 10+ are blueshifted, whereas the lines associated to n = 0 are redshifted (n is the principal quantum number).

We analyze atomic structures of plasma embedded aluminum (Al) atom and its ions in the weakly and strongly coupling regimes. The plasma screening effects in these atomic systems are accounted for using the Debye and ion sphere (IS) potentials for the weakly coupling and strongly coupling plasmas, respectively. Within the Debye model, special attention is given to investigate the spherical and non-spherical plasma-screening effects considering in the electron-electron interaction potential. The relativistic coupled-cluster (RCC) method has been employed to describe the relativistic and electronic correlation effects in the above atomic systems. The variation in the ionization potentials (IPs) and excitation energies (EEs) of the plasma embedded Al ions are presented. It is found that the atomic systems exhibit more stability when the exact screening effects are taken into account. It is also showed that in the presence of strongly coupled plasma environment, the highly ionized Al ions show blue and red shifts in the spectral lines of the transitions between the states with same and different principal quantum numbers, respectively. Comparison among the results obtained from the Debye and IS models are also carried out considering similar plasma conditions.

Ionization potential and low lying 1 S 0 −→ 1 P 1 excitation energies (EE) of highly stripped He-like ions C 4+ , Al 11+ , and Ar 16+ embedded in plasma environment are calculated for the first time using the state-of-the-art coupled cluster (CC)-based linear response theory (LRT) with the four-component relativistic spinors and compared with available experimental data from laser plasma experiments. Debye's screening model is used to estimate the effect of plasma on the ions within the relativistic and non-relativistic framework. The transition energies computed at the CCLRT level using the Debye model agree well with experiment and with other available theoretical data. To our knowledge, no prior CCLRT calculations within the Dirac-Fock framework are available for these systems. Our calculated transition energies for helium-like ions are in accord with experiment; we trust that our predicted EE might be acceptably good for the systems considered. Our preliminary result indicates that CCLRT with the four-component relativistic spinors appears to be a valuable tool for studying the atomic systems where accurate treatments of correlation effects play a crucial role in shaping the spectral lines of ions subjected to plasma environment.

In view of its importance in high precision spectroscopy, the valence universal multireference coupled cluster (VU-MRCC) method with four-component relativistic spinors has been applied to compute ionization potential (IP) and excitation energies (EEs) of the indium atom (In I). The effect of electron correlations on the ground and excited state properties is investigated using different levels of CC approximations and basis sets. This study reveals that for a given basis, the linearized VU-MRCC method tends to underestimate the IP, EEs and other one-electron properties such as magnetic hyperfine constant (A) compared to the full blown VU-MRCC method. Our computed results have been compared with available theoretical and experimental data. The IP, EEs, A and oscillator strengths (f) determined at the VU-MRCC level are in excellent agreement with the experimental results. The properties reported here further demonstrate that a basis set with at least h-type of orbitals is ubiquitous to achieve converged results.