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Considerable theoretical and experimental efforts have been recently undertaken to study the non-relativistic hydrogen atom in static electric fields.1,2 These efforts have been quite successful and, as a result, there is even an opinion that the above problem may be now considered as solved.3 But in our opinion there is at least one aspect of the theory which was not studied in detail and is relevant to the experimental studies.4,5
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Damburg, R.J. (1988). The Hydrogen Atoms in Strong Electric Fields. In: Taylor, K.T., Nayfeh, M.H., Clark, C.W. (eds) Atomic Spectra and Collisions in External Fields. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1061-7_13
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