QUANTOGRAMS AS A NEW VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF ATOMIC SYSTEMS
O. I. Mechkov1,2, V. V. Kazakov1, V. G. Kazakov1, A.A. Potekhina1, E. A. Temnikova1, A.V. Tikhonova1
1Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: atomic spectroscopy, electronic structure, scientific graphics, Grotrian diagram, quantogram
Abstract
For analytical work with the electronic structure of atomic systems and for the purposes of training specialists in the field of spectroscopy, scientific visualization of levels and transitions in an atomic system is important, which usually implemented in the form of Grotrian diagrams. Currently, such diagrams can be generated programmatically from spectroscopic databases. Unlike printed graphic images, the graphics processed and presented in a machine way may have interactivity and dynamics properties, which significantly affects the efficiency of specialist's work with it. It may be assumed that the possibilities of machine visualization can give rise to new types of graphical representations of the electronic structure, which were not used previously because of their laboriousness or other reasons. In this paper, a new type of diagrams of the electronic structure of atomic systems, called quantograms by the authors, is proposed. It is focused on computer generation combined with an interactive dynamic presentation of the results. The idea of the new diagrammatic technique, its main features, the experience of software implementation, and working with quantograms automatically generated from a spectral database are described.
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