Relativistic many-body perturbation theory for general open-shell multiplet states of atoms

A relativistic many-body perturbation theory, which accounts for relativistic and electron-correlation effects for general open-shell multiplet states of atoms and molecules, is developed and implemented with analytic basis sets of Gaussian spinors. The theory retains the essential aspects of Mo/ller-Plesset perturbation theory by employing the relativistic single-Fock-operator method of Koc and Ishikawa [Phys. Rev. A 49, 794 (1994)] for general open-shell systems. Open-shell Dirac-Fock and relativistic many-body perturbation calculations are reported for the ground and low-lying excited states of Li, B²⁺, Ne⁷⁺, and Ca¹¹⁺. {} 1996 The American Physical Society.