Deriving Tanabe Sugano diagram

[bearcharge]

Hi all,

As a beginning theoretical chemist, I'm trying to understand how Tanabe-Sugano diagram was derived. Can someone help me understand the derivation in a nutshell? Thanks!

 

[jedishrfu]

This may help with references that may answer your question

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabe_sugano_diagram

And a slide show presentation on them

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ZehraDurmusMScPhD/tanabe-sugano-diagrams

 

[bearcharge]

Thank you for the suggestions. I was trying to understand how it is derived. In wikipedia, it says "They used Hans Bethe's crystal field theory and Giulio Racah's linear combinations of Slater integrals, now called Racah parameters..." so I guess I'd better start with Hans Bethe's crystal field theory, Slater integrals and Racah parameters... there is no shortcut if I really want to understand it... Thanks!