Complications of using perturbation theory without multipole expansions

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  • March 5, 2022 at 4:12 pm #4267 Score: 0
    Sandrien Scholiers
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    The interaction between the nucleus and the electron cloud will be a very complicated expression, if it is even analytically solvable. If you don’t approximate this interaction by a multipole expansion, the perturbation terms will be too complicated to solve.

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