Periodic table for highly charged ions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11237v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:39:09 GMT
• Title: Periodic table for highly charged ions
• Abstract summary: We propose a new periodic table for describing the electronic properties of highly charged ions (HCIs)<n>It is constructed purely based on the successive electron occupation of relativistic orbitals.<n>Such a table predicts a large family of highly forbidden transitions suitable for the development of next-generation optical atomic clocks.
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• Abstract: Mendeleev's periodic table successfully groups atomic elements according to their chemical and spectroscopic properties. However, it becomes less sufficient in describing the electronic properties of highly charged ions (HCIs) in which many of the outermost electrons are ionized. In this work, we put forward a periodic table particularly suitable for HCIs. It is constructed purely based on the successive electron occupation of relativistic orbitals. While providing a much-simplified description of the level structure of highly charged isoelectronic ions -- essential for laboratory and astrophysical plasma spectroscopies, such a periodic table predicts a large family of highly forbidden transitions suitable for the development of next-generation optical atomic clocks. Furthermore, we also identify universal linear $Z$ scaling laws ($Z$ is the nuclear charge) in the so-called ``Coulomb splittings'' between angular momentum multiplets along isoelectronic sequences, complementing the physics of electron-electron interactions in multielectron atomic systems.

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