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The importance of spin-orbit coupling in the magnetised hydrogen problem

G Wunner, W Rosner, H Herold and H Ruder

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On the basis of the authors' previously determined highly accurate numerical wavefunctions they investigate, in quantitative terms, the effect of spin-orbit coupling on low-lying states of the hydrogen atom in magnetic fields of arbitrary strength. They stress the point that, in spite of the expected minute corrections of Coulomb binding energies, spin-orbit coupling produces narrow anticrossings of levels having identical parity and projection mj of the total angular momentum. In this way they find the correlation diagram (between the low- and high-field quantum numbers) of the physically 'real' hydrogen atom to be quite different from that derived by Simola and Virtamo (1978) for the idealised non-relativistic hydrogen problem with infinite proton mass.


PACS

31.15.-p Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Computational physics

Dates

Issue 7 (14 April 1985)



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