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Asim Barut once,en passant, asked the question “For what transitions of the hydrogen atom do the spectral lines coincide”? It is a pleasure for us to give the answer in this paper.
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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Asim O. Barut on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.
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Wyss, D.W., Wyss, W. Coincidental spectral lines for the hydrogen atom. Found Phys 23, 465–468 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883724
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883724