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INTRODUCTION THE structure of complex atoms forms one of the main fields of application of quantum mechanics to many-body problems. The subject has two main aspects: the outer electronic structure, taking the nucleus as a point charge; and the structure of the nucleus.
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H., D. Theory of Complex Atoms. Nature 138, 1080–1082 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381080a0
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