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Electric fields and magnetic fields exert a manifest influence, or effect, on the energy levels of an atom. These effects, revealed for example by the splitting of spectral lines, are called Stark and Zeeman effects, respectively. The Stark effect (first observed by Johannes Stark in 1913) plays an important role, for example, in theoretical attempts to understand the formation of molecules from atoms. Our interest will be in the Zeeman effect—especially as we consider the notion of “spin,” and spin wave functions in the next chapter, particularly in Section 9.3 there.
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Williams, F. (2003). The Quantized Hamiltonian for a Charged Particle in an Electromagnetic Field. In: Topics in Quantum Mechanics. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 27. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0009-3_9
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