S. Kucas et R. Karazija, THE LOCATION OF 4D PHOTOABSORPTION RESONANCES AND THE COLLAPSE OF 4F RADIAL WAVE-FUNCTION IN LANTHANIDES, Physica scripta. T, 58(3), 1998, pp. 220-223
Using the spin-polarised method it is shown that the collapse of wavef
unctions of the 4f(N) shell in free lanthanide atoms for the upper ter
ms of the excited 4d(9)4f(N) configuration is completed, not at the be
ginning, but in the middle of the lanthanum group. This is the reason
for the redistribution between photoionization and photoexcitation pro
cesses and for the shift of the giant resonance through the 4d ionizat
ion limit when passing over from Eu to Gd.