For all of these reasons (1) I'm going to remove the <math>g</math>-orbital atomic orbital nomenclature names until someone tells me it is tabulated in the Chisholm reference or provides another reference. (2) I'm going to add 2 references for the atomic orbital names. (3) I also think we should have a description somewhere of how the atomic orbital nomenclature is derived. Unfortunately, again, this is not explained anywhere in the literature. If we stick to <math>f</math> orbitals and below I think we could just say it comes from the <math>x, y, z</math> expansion of the spherical harmonic and then dropping any terms then <math>z, r</math> that aren't the highest exponent in <math>z</math>. One big question I have is where this explanation should go. Should it go on this page? The spherical harmonics page? Or one of at least 3 pages on atomic orbitals? I don't think it should go on the Spherical Harmonics page because that page doesn't really make reference to atomic orbital stuff, and I don't think it should be cluttered with that. I think an explanation should go on the atomic orbitals page and be linked to on this page. I may work on that. (4) Finally, I would be happy to work on adding the expansions for the real spherical harmonics up to 10, but I would be using the formula I derived in the link above (will post it here) along with mathematica or something for checking. If this is legit, I'll do that. If we require a referenced tabulation, I won't do that, but it seems a shame to leave them off when they're easily calculated.

 

 

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