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Hyperfine interactions between electrons

Abstract

The relativistic Breit Hamiltonian between electrons is transformed into an effective vector potential ${\bf A}_i$ for the $i.$th electron, ${\bf A}_i$ having the structure of a recoil--corrected hyperfine operator. Apart from a small three--body operator, the Dirac--Breit equation is now easier applied to relativistic magnetic properties of complex systems.

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R. Haeckl, H. Pilkuhn. 1996-05-22. Hyperfine interactions between electrons. https://arxiv.org/abs/atom-ph/9605005

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