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In preceding sections rules and methods required for the graphical theory of angular momentum have been introduced and exercised in various examples dealing with closed or open diagrams in Sects. 8 and 9, respectively. It is now time to consider an example in which open and closed diagrams are combined. Most of the results found are well known but it is also quite feasible to search for new relations as, for example, in Sect. 9.6 and Sect. 8.3.3. It is thus worthwhile to study the application of the graphical method on hand of an example plucked from atomic physics. There is, however, a drawback in that we have to insert a short introduction to concepts related to spherical tensor operators and their matrix elements for many electron atoms before we return to the graphical method. In this context we wish to draw attention to the contents of App. A.
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Balcar, E., Lovesey, S.W. (2009). Application in Atomic Physics. In: Introduction to the Graphical Theory of Angular Momentum. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03118-2_10
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