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Recent years have seen a growing interest in the effects of relativity in atoms, molecules and solids. On the one hand, this can be seen as result of the growing awareness of the importance of relativity in describing the properties of heavy atoms and systems containing them. This has been fueled by the inadequacy of physical models which either neglect relativity or which treat it as a small perturbation. On the other hand, it is dependent upon the technological developments which have resulted in computers powerful enough to make calculations on heavy atoms and on systems containing heavy atoms meaningful. Vector processing and, more recently, parallel processing techniques are playing an increasingly vital role in rendering the algorithms which arise in relativistic studies tractable. This has been exemplified in atomic structure theory, where the dominant role of the central nuclear charge simplifies the problem enough to permit some prediction to be made with high precision, especially for the highly ionized atoms of importance in plasma physics and in laser confinement studies. Today's sophisticated physical models of the atom derived from quantum electrodynamics would be intractable without recourse to modern computational machinery. Relativistic atomic structure calculations have a history dating from the early attempts of Swirles in the mid 1930's but continue to provide one of the primary test beds of modern theoretical physics.
Relativistic Effects on Periodic Trends
ATOMS
Relativistic Atomic Structure and Electron-Atom Collisions
On the Accuracy of Oscillator Strengths
Atomic Structure Calculations in Breit-Pauli Approximation
Relativistic Calculations of Parity Non-Conserving Effects in Atoms
High Precision Relativistic Atomic Structure Calculations Using the Finite Basis Set Approximation
Relativistic Calculations of Electron Impact Ionisation Cross-Sections of Highly Charged Ions
MOLECULES
Nonsingular Relativistic Perturbation Theory and Relativistic Changes of Molecular Structure
Basis Set Expansion Dirac-Fock SCF Calculations and MBPT Refinement
Polyatomic Molecular Dirac-Hartree-Fock Calculations with Gaussian Basis Sets
Open Shell Relativistic Molecular Dirac-Hartree-Fock SCF-Program
General Contraction in Four-Component Relativistic Hartree-Fock Calculations
Accurate Relativistic Dirac-Fock and MBPT Calculations on Argon with Basis Sets of Contracted Gaussian Functions
Relativistic Many-Body Perturbation Theory of Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure
SOLID STATE
Relativistic Density-Functional Theory for Electrons in Solids
Influence of Relativistic Effects on the Magnetic Moments and Hyperfine Fields of 5d-Impurity Atoms Dissolved in Ferromagnetic Fe
Relativistic Spin-Polarized Density-Functional Theory: Simplified Method for Fully Relativistic Calculations
Theory of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy
The Spin Polarized Photoemission from Non-Magnetic Metals
Theory of Magnetic X-Ray Dichroism
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