title: Expectation values in two-component relativistic theories.
abstract: We examined numerically the equivalence between the expectation values calculated by the four-component wave function and those calculated by the two-component wave functions generated by the infinite-order Douglas-Kroll (IODK) transformation. We showed the expectation values <r(-1)> and <delta(r-R)> in several closed-shell atoms using the so-called picture-changed 2x2 operators at some levels of approximation. The effect of the two-electron Coulomb term was also discussed. The numerical results indicated that the accuracy of <r(-1)> mainly depends on the level of the wave functions, while that of <delta(r-R)> is affected by the accuracy of both the wave functions and the picture-changed operators. As expected, the picture-changed operators and the IODK wave functions generate essentially equivalent expectation values in comparison with those calculated by the four-component Dirac-type method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
authors.forename: Junji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Seino
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Uesugi
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hada