Creation, destruction, and transfer of atomic multipole moments by electron scattering: Quantum mechanical treatment

We have defined, by completely quantum mechanical methods, the cross sections for the creation, destruction, and transfer of atomic multipole moments by both elastic and inelastic scattering of electrons by atomic targets. Most of the cross sections so obtained agree in form with those obtained by semiclassical methods by Fujimoto and coworkers. We also used the Converged Close-Coupling (CCC) method to calculate numerically some of the above cross sections for selected transitions in H and Ba.