Quantograms as a New Visualization Technique of Electronic Structure of Atomic Systems

• Published in: Optoelectronics, instrumentation, and data processing Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 177 - 184
• Main Authors: Meshkov, O. I., Kazakov, V. V., Kazakov, V. G., Potekhin, A. A., Temnikova, E. A., Tikhonova, A. V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Lasers; Optical Devices; Optics; Photonics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; quantogram; scientific graphics; electronic structure; Grotrian diagram; atomic spectroscopy
• ISSN: 8756-6990; 1934-7944
• DOI: 10.3103/S8756699021020126

The scientific visualization of levels and transitions in atomic systems, which is usually implemented in the form of the Grotrian diagrams, is essential for analytical work with electronic structure and also for training specialists in the field of spectroscopy. At present, such diagrams can be generated by special programs using data from spectroscopic databases. In contrast to printed graphics, images that are processed and represented by a computer can have properties of interactivity and dynamics, which makes the work with them more efficient. It can be expected that the machine visualization is capable to bring to life alternative types of graphical representations of electronic structure, which could not be realized before due to their complexity or other reasons. We propose a new type of diagrams of electronic structure, called quantograms, with a focus on computer generation in combination with an interactive dynamic representation of the results. In this paper, we describe the idea of this new diagram technique and its main features and discuss our experience with implementation of the software for generating the quantograms using the data from the spectral databases.