A procedure is described for drawing a correspondence between the states and operators occurring in standard atomic shell theory and those based on a quark-like model. Quasiparticle creation and annihilation operators far electrons are expressed as coupled products of pairs of quark operators in which Dirac y matrices make their appearance. The method is illustrated by calculating some matrix elements of the single-electron tensors V'k' for f'.
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