Calculation of hyperfine structure of erbium and fermium

Abstract

A version of the configuration interaction method, which has been recently developed to deal with large number of valence electrons, has been used to calculate magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole hyperfine structure constants for a number of states of erbium and fermium. Calculations for fermium are done for extracting nuclear moments of Fm isotopes from recent and future measurements. Calculations for erbium, which has electronic structure similar to those of fermium, are done to study the accuracy of the method.