https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00143-4
QED corrections and chemical properties of Eka-Hg
1
St. Petersburg State University, 198504 Ulyanovskaya 1, Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg, Russia
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Mommsenstrasse 13, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Corresponding author: a igor_g@landau.phys.spbu.ru
Received:
15
November
2006
Revised:
17
February
2007
Published online:
6
April
2007
The influence of quantum electrodynamic (QED) corrections on the valence electrons in superheavy atoms with nuclear charge Z ≈112 is studied within the effective local-potential approximation and the self-consistent approach. The results are obtained from a relativistic coupled-cluster calculation
without inclusion of QED effects. The difference between the
effective-potential and the self-consistent approach for the leading QED correction to the energy of the valence-electron levels in any superheavy atoms defines an inaccuracy of about 
of the first ionization potential.
PACS: 31.30.Jv – Relativistic and quantum electrodynamic effects in atoms and molecules
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2007
