get_spectroscopic_letter

rydstate.angular.utils.get_spectroscopic_letter(l)[source]

Return the spectroscopic letter (s, p, d, f, …) for the orbital angular momentum quantum number l.

For l values without a spectroscopic letter in ORBITAL_TO_STRING the fallback “(l={l})” is returned, and for an Unknown l the placeholder “(l=?)”.

Return type:

str

Parameters:

l (int | Unknown)