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We prove that the spectrum for a large class ofN-body Stark Hamiltonians is purely absolutely continuous. We need slow decay at infinity and local singularities of at most Coulomb type. In particular our results include the usual models for atoms and molecules.
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Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS 9307147.
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Herbst, I., Møller, J.S. & Skibsted, E. Spectral analysis ofN-body Stark Hamiltonians. Commun.Math. Phys. 174, 261–294 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02099603
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