Configurations of equivalent electrons.
We derive here a comprehensive set of formulas for determining the overall spin and spatial symmetry of wave functions arising from a partially filled degenerate orbital. We extend the usual arguments for the case of weak coupling between spin and spatial angular momenta to the jj-coupling case.
Taylor
Peter R
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Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. p.r.taylor@warwick.ac.uk