LS coupling

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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.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
spin–orbit interaction effect 1

Instances (2)

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