Marc Anthony Ramirez

Half filling forbids the anomaly: an exchange ledger for the transition-metal ground-state configurations

The anomalous ground-state configurations of the transition metals are conventionally attributed to a special stability of half-filled subshells. Scerri has shown that explanation to be neither necessary nor sufficient. We show that counting the same-spin pairs available for exch...

Half filling forbids the anomaly: an exchange ledger for the transition-metal ground-state configurations

The anomalous ground-state configurations of the transition metals are conventionally attributed to a special stability of half-filled subshells. Scerri has shown that explanation to be neither necessary nor sufficient. We show that counting the same-spin pairs available for exch...