Electric-Dipole Polarizability of Atoms by the Hartree—Fock Method. II. The Isoelectronic Two- and Four-Electron Series

Abstract

Results are presented for the electronic‐dipole polarizabilities of the isoelectronic series of helium and beryllium in the presence of a finite electric field. These calculations were done analytically, but large numbers of carefully chosen and optimized basis functions were used in order to assure a good fit to the exact solution for the perturbed Hartree—Fock wavefunction. It was found that the polarizabilities of the helium series increase, and those of the beryllium series decrease, as the field increases.