TY - JOUR T1 - Three-Body Dispersion Coefficients for Excited Hydrogen Atoms AU - Huang , Shi-Zhong AU - Sun , Qiu-Feng JO - Journal of Atomic and Molecular Sciences VL - 4 SP - 325 EP - 333 PY - 2011 DA - 2011/02 SN - 2 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jams.121210.012111a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jams/8167.html KW - hydrogen, excited state, three-body dispersion coefficient. AB -

The three-body van der Waals dispersion coefficients $Z(l_1l_2l_2)$ (up to $l_i = 5$) for the $H(1s)-H(1s)-H(1s)$ and $H(2s)-H(2s)-H(2s)$ systems are calculated by virtue of the dynamic polarizabilities at imaginary photon frequencies. The expression for the $2^l$-pole dynamic polarizabilities of atomic hydrogen is derived by application of the integration properties of the one-dimensional radial Coulomb Green's function. The results for the $H(1s)-H(1s)-H(1s)$ system are consistent with previous calculation in the literature, while the results for the $H(2s)-H(2s)-H(2s)$ systems are reported for the first time, and they are the main contribution of this work.