Rydberg atoms in weak magnetic fields
Abstract
The quadratic Zeeman effect of Rydberg atoms is treated with the help of first-order perturbation theory and a special WKB approximation. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization leads to complete elliptic integrals. As a result we found that the spectrum is doubly degenerate if n2m2>5, this part exhibiting a linear Stark effect in an additional weak electric field; the rest of the spectrum (n2m2<5) is nondegenerate, exhibiting a quadratic Stark effect in an additional weak electric field.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- December 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.28.3659
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvA..28.3659K
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Spectra;
- Hydrogen Atoms;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Rydberg Series;
- Stark Effect;
- Zeeman Effect;
- Atomic Beams;
- Atomic Energy Levels;
- Magnetic Flux;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Potential Energy;
- Wentzel-Kramer-Brillouin Method;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics