Long-range interaction of two metastable rare-gas atoms

Abstract

We present semiempirical calculations of long-range van der Waals interactions for two interacting metastable rare-gas atoms Ne through Xe. Dispersion coefficients $C_6$ are obtained for homonuclear molecular potentials asymptotically connecting to the $ns(3/2{)}_2+ns(3/2{)}_2$ atomic states. The estimated uncertainty of the calculated $C_6$ dispersion coefficients is 4%.

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