LS coupling

C28829
concept

LS coupling is an atomic coupling scheme in which individual electron orbital angular momenta combine to form a total orbital angular momentum L, individual spins combine to form a total spin S, and these then couple to give the total angular momentum J of the atom.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
LS coupling canonical 1
spin–orbit interaction effect 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: LS coupling
Generated description
LS coupling is an atomic coupling scheme in which individual electron orbital angular momenta combine to form a total orbital angular momentum L, individual spins combine to form a total spin S, and these then couple to give the total angular momentum J of the atom.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction spin–orbit interaction effect
Russell–Saunders coupling